On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 08:01:02AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:23:17 -0700, Gary Kline <kl...@thought.org> wrote:
> > what about j, k [down, up]. and h,l [left, right]?
> > why reach over for the arrow keys! oh, and o, and O
> > [open line below/Above], and
> >
> > \search
> >
> > and that's 97 and 44/100ths of what you'll ever need.
>
> Well, I'm not good at vi. As a lazy guy (TM) I honestly prefer
> ee, as long as the cursor keys work. If they don't, well, I
> have a "vi keyboard reference" in my "extremely important
> documentation folder" - and yes, it is a real folder, not a
> directory. :-) So if everything fails, there's still vi and
> the content of /rescue to get you back working.
>
> Maybe this is because vi scared me when using WEGA (which is
> the GDR's equivalent of UNIX System III, run on the P8000
> multi-user workstation). Well, we were all young, many many
> years in the distant past. :-)
>
Ah yes.... true words, never spoken, etc. And I had
(past tensed) one of those reference cards ... come to think
of it. There're still tricks of vi I don't know. Or, to
be correct, nvi, which was said to be a "feature for feature, bug
for bug" clone. Yes, i am a geek, just not an extremist:)
>
>
> > ps: when bill j. dies and meets st. pete at the pearly
> > gate, pete'll say: "So what did you do--" And bill
> > will say, "I wrote vi." red-carpet is rolled out
> > :_)
>
> When Bill G. arrives at the pearly gate, ol' Pete won't ask
> him what he did do, instead send him to MICROS~1 C:\HELL.EXE
> with the advice to click on the devil to start the everlasting
> pain. :-)
>
>
(*Yes*!)
LMAO.
gary
>
> --
> Polytropon
> From Magdeburg, Germany
> Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
> Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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