[SlugLUG] "downgrading" to unstable [debian]?

Jimmy PC_Repair at mailcan.com
Sat Sep 30 15:08:56 PDT 2006


Eric Carter 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
>
Thank you Eric Carter, I got more useful information out of reading your 
5 lines than reading two page's on Vi.

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