Learning 'vi'

Dave Parker dlparker at dlpinc.com
Wed Sep 15 22:02:02 CDT 1999


And following up myself, I might add, that if all you've got is ed
(allen, not the editor), you don't even need the man pages, and ed
(the editor) will most likely be more than enough...

Dave Parker wrote:
> 
> But you can't go wrong learn at least a LITTLE about vi.  Any
> unix/linux machine you're on it's the one editor you'll be sure
> to find.  Learn your favorite, but learn as much vi as you can,
> too, because you never know when you'll be in a situation where
> it's all you have - unless all you have is ed (the editor, not
> allen), in which case I'd be in trouble myself.
> 
> cruller wrote:
> >
> > For X I would suggest Nedit.  It's small fast and has some cool
> > programming & Text editing features.
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