Learning 'vi'

[Maurice L. Entwistle]

   kde has a SimpleText Editor that is wysiwyg, cut & paste, just like
   any modern word processor. It's so simple, if you use it, it will grow
   on you.

   Maurice

   Randy Rathbun wrote:

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     Awesome! Thank you, Ed!

     I am a relative LINUX newbie and have never been able to figure out
     how in the heck vi works... even when I was at UMKC using the VAX I
     ended up in vi sometimes and never could get it to do anything, so
     I
     ended up using joe (and I still do... guess those WordStar commands
     just stuck with me).

     This leads me to my question:

     Besides Corel WordPerfect for Linux, and the previously mentioned
     joe,
     what does anyone recommend as a good editor under text mode or X? I
     have tried emacs and find it to be a pain to use as well (sorry,
     but
     as a self described geek I do not go for the 'computers have to be
     hard to use' thing. Ya want hard, go use ENIAC or sit and flip
     switches) ... To me this is the major downfall of LINUX as a viable
     OS
     - - not that it is not getting to the point of being a system that
     "I
     could install for my mom and she could use it," but one must admit,
     there is a way yet to go. I am talking about world domination
     here....
     not the nerd OS that it is now.

     Thoughts? Suggestions? Flames?

     Randy

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     On 9/15/99 at 12:25 PM Ed Allen wrote:

     >[1]http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/misc/vilearn.html
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     >[2]http://physics.ucsc.edu/tutor/vi.html
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References

   1. http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/misc/vilearn.html
   2. http://physics.ucsc.edu/tutor/vi.html