Thread: vi

Originally Posted by Swansen

is a good time....

Are you spamming, or did you forget the rest of your post?

lol, spamming ?? no, the Unix editor vi

Originally Posted by Swansen

lol, spamming ?? no, the Unix editor vi

Yeah, I know what vi is. But what about it?

lol ...... its a good time ..... (but not so much) No, its the same old story, i will be more than happy once i have a grasp on it, it just getting that far that is difficult.

Try running vimtutor.

sweet thanks, i'll look into that.

Originally Posted by Swansen

sweet thanks, i'll look into that.

Sure dude

Originally Posted by Sniper

or use nano, good when you learning.

...except if you want to learn vi/vim. Then it's bad when you're learning.

Originally Posted by Sniper

lol, yeh was thinking more along the lines of when starting out with linux.

simply, because it listed all the shortcuts.

No, you're right. That's why Ubuntu has essentially replaced vim with nano. However, vi is still the defacto editor on every *nix distro out there, and it's a lot more powerful than simpler editors like nano, pico or joe. For those reasons, there is merit in learning it, even though there's a curve.

Originally Posted by Anti-Trend

No, you're right. That's why Ubuntu has essentially replaced vim with nano. However, vi is still the defacto editor on every *nix distro out there, and it's a lot more powerful than simpler editors like nano, pico or joe. For those reasons, there is merit in learning it, even though there's a curve.

AT pretty much nailed it there.