I was exposed to vi several years ago. It made me ever so thankful for
the nice people who developed pico.
On 8/10/2012 15:38, ChasM Marshall wrote:
Linux users should try vi in a terminal;
$ vi (now type in the vi command ":help 42")
<esc>
:
h
e
l
p
4
2
<Enter>
(And you may need to know how to gracefully quit)
<esc>
:
q
<Enter>
$
The escape-colon sequence is a toggle between command line mode and
edit mode.
Personally I've always felt that vi came from another galaxy... and I
press <insert> once to begin every edit.
(-: Chas.M. :-)
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