[SlugLUG] running vi

[Thomas Leavitt]

vi made me a million dollars (although it didn't help me keep it)

i took a unix class at Cabrillo in the early 90s - the prof gave me a
free pass after a few weeks, because I soaked it all up like a sponge
(already having been exposed to a unix-like command line via the Amiga
and a PrimeOS miniframe at a prior school helped)... so I spent the rest
of the semester hanging out in the psych lab with a buddy, working
through the vilearn tutorial (all the way through cutting and pasting
with multiple buffers) on this gigantic creaky VAX running BSD... the
tutorial's extensive training in how to use regular expressions via use
of "ex", etc., put me in good stead when I started my web hosting
service and found out about this new programming language called Perl. :)

thomas

Eric Carter wrote:
> lol. Thanks Peter. I probably should have done that myself. ;)
>
> *equips his +5 Ruby Armor of Flame Resistance*
>
> Ok, I'm ready now. :)
>
> EC
>
> On 9/30/06, Peter Belew <abcruzww at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hehe -
>>
>> Discussing editors, as you know, is like discussing religion or politics
>> in the 'wrong' place!
>>
>>
>> (I made this the start of a new thread).
>>
>> :)
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> On 9/30/06, Eric Carter <Ecnassianer at greenstorm.net> wrote:
>> > Incase you run into vi again:
>> >
>> > $vim /etc/apt/sources.list
>> > 1) Use the up and down arrows (or j and k) to scroll to the line you
>> want to
>> > edit
>> > 2) Press i to <i>nsert text (or your choice of a, A, I, o, O,and
>> perhaps
>> > others)
>> > 3) Type what you want as you would anywhere else
>> > 4) Esc to stop editing text
>> > 5) :wq <enter> to save and quit.
>> >
>> > vi gets a lot clearer once you realize it has 3 modes. ( Hotkey mode
>> (which
>> > you start in), editing mode (you get in with i out with ESC) and
>> command
>> > mode (open that with : from hotkey mode).
>> >
>> > (I wonder if I just started an entirely different interesting debate.)
>> >
>> > EC
>> >
>> > On 9/29/06, Sean Kellogg <skellogg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > On Friday 29 September 2006 15:52, Ignacio Solis wrote:
>> > > > Choose the "Edit sources manually".  You'll be given an editor
>> (nano?)
>> > > with
>> > > > the sources file open.  Just type in the sluglug address.
>> > >
>> > > That sounds familiar.  But I seem to remember the reason I never
>> used
>> this
>> > > route is that the default editor is vi, which I find about as
>> > > incomprehensible as emacs.  If they are using nano now as a default
>> than
>> > > thank goodness.
>> > >
>> > > -Sean
>> > >
>> > > --
>> > > Sean Kellogg
>> > > c: 831.818.6940 e: skellogg at gmail.com
>> > > w: http://blog.probonogeek.org/
>> > >
>> > > So, let go
>> > > ...Jump in
>> > > ...Oh well, what you waiting for?
>> > > ...it's all right
>> > >   ...'Cause there's beauty in the breakdown
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