These are good instructions. The only thing you did wrong was to quote
me in your posting. I did not ask that question but, if memory serves me
Ooops :(.
J. Craig Woods
UNIX/NT Network/System Administration
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On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 04:46, J. Craig Woods wrote:
Ok, I've got to ask here about something that's been bugging me cause I
can't make it happen yet. I'm trying to set the margin in Vi(m) so that
the text will wrap with words (at about 70 chars across or so) instead
of just on a per-letter
dfox wrote:
On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 04:46, J. Craig Woods wrote:
Ok, I've got to ask here about something that's been bugging me cause I
can't make it happen yet. I'm trying to set the margin in Vi(m) so that
the text will wrap with words (at about 70 chars across or so) instead
of just
On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 13:19, dfox wrote:
I would first try:
escse wm=6
That's for setting the wrap margin. I should point out that it should be set
to the number of characters from the *right* margin. I.e., if you set wm to
72, you'll end up with most of your words
on a new
line
Greetings from a guy living in Argentina and a user of vi.
I never imagine I could do that with vi.
I always cut and paste to insert a figure. you give me a lot of
ideas.. This helper scripts are very cool.
Even to edit a source code (may be fortran or c or whatever) is very
On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 04:46, J. Craig Woods wrote:
Yes, Mike so true. Many, many tools. And the best way to learn them is
one at a time. That is why, in my *very* original post, I did not
enumerate all the different ways to use the stdout process for different
programs i.e. TeX, LaTeX,
On stardate Mon, 8 Apr 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Randy Kramer wrote:
Michael Holt wrote:
I do have
another question; I've read books that say they've were written using vi
and I started wondering if you could actually apply fonts and control size
of fonts
Michael Holt wrote:
OK, that makes sense. I'm new to vi but really enjoy the ability to move
around by keystroke and not have to mess with the mouse. I was wondering
if there was a sort of common way the *nix people have done that I haven't
seen yet; there are so many tools in the *nix
Michael Holt wrote:
http://www.trismegistus.net/vi_cheatsheets.htm
I'm not able to pull the page up at this point - try later? I do have
another question; I've read books that say they've were written using vi
and I started wondering if you could actually apply fonts and control size
of
J. C. Woods wrote:
Michael Holt wrote:
http://www.trismegistus.net/vi_cheatsheets.htm
I'm not able to pull the page up at this point - try later? I do have
another question; I've read books that say they've were written using vi
and I started wondering if you could actually apply fonts and
Michael Holt wrote:
I do have
another question; I've read books that say they've were written using vi
and I started wondering if you could actually apply fonts and control size
of fonts as well as italics, bold, etc. Is that possible? Does vi have
something built in that will allow
| I did, and thanks to both of you. Mystery solved! I don' use vi improved
| (vim). I guess it is because, as an old timer that has used vi, I don't
| believe you can improve vi :-)
|
Dr John
Depending on what OS revision you're working with, you may be using ViM
after all. Check for a
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Randy Kramer wrote:
Michael Holt wrote:
I do have
another question; I've read books that say they've were written using vi
and I started wondering if you could actually apply fonts and control size
of fonts as well as italics, bold, etc. Is that possible? Does
On stardate Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Randy Kramer wrote:
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 09:30:30 -0400
From: Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] A little vi help
Michael Holt wrote:
I do have
another question; I've read books that say
On stardate Sat, 6 Apr 2002, J. Craig Woods wrote:
Fellow Penquinistas,
Because we have had a few threads about the CLI, and because remote file
editing with vi is such an efficient method, I thought I would share a
little document that I found, and converted to html. You can view it at
Fellow Penquinistas,
Because we have had a few threads about the CLI, and because remote file
editing with vi is such an efficient method, I thought I would share a
little document that I found, and converted to html. You can view it at
http://www.trismegistus.net/vi_cheatsheets.htm
If you have
EXCELLENT!!! VERY well done Mr. Woods.
J. Craig Woods wrote:
Fellow Penquinistas,
Because we have had a few threads about the CLI, and because remote file
editing with vi is such an efficient method, I thought I would share a
little document that I found, and converted to html. You can
J. Craig Woods wrote:
Because we have had a few threads about the CLI, and because remote file
editing with vi is such an efficient method, I thought I would share a
little document that I found, and converted to html. You can view it at
http://www.trismegistus.net/vi_cheatsheets.htm
Dr.
On Saturday 06 April 2002 05:15, you wrote:
Fellow Penquinistas,
Because we have had a few threads about the CLI, and because remote file
editing with vi is such an efficient method, I thought I would share a
little document that I found, and converted to html. You can view it at
On Saturday 06 April 2002 10:41, you wrote:
Question (for anyone):
How do you get in and out of recording mode? I searched your document
for record and found nothing. Just yesterday I jumped into vi (or
maybe it was vim?) to do a quick edit and accidentally got into
recording mode (I
Tim Cruikshank wrote:
On Saturday 06 April 2002 10:41, you wrote:
How do you get in and out of recording mode? I searched your document
for record and found nothing. Just yesterday I jumped into vi (or
maybe it was vim?) to do a quick edit and accidentally got into
recording mode (I
Randy Kramer wrote:
Thanks, but IIRC, that didn't work for me (that was one of the things
that I know I tried). Sometimes when I was in recording *and* insert
mode, one or more escs got me back to recording mode only, but did not
cancel recording mode.
Guess I'll have to try it again
According to http://www.vim.org/html/repeat.html#q
q{0-9a-zA-Z} Record typed characters into register {0-9a-zA-Z}
(uppercase to append). The 'q' command is disabled
while executing a register, and it doesn't work inside
a mapping. {Vi: no recording}
q Stops recording.
Mike,
Thanks!
Randy Kramer
mike wrote:
According to http://www.vim.org/html/repeat.html#q
q{0-9a-zA-Z} Record typed characters into register {0-9a-zA-Z}
(uppercase to append). The 'q' command is disabled
while executing a register, and it doesn't work inside
a mapping. {Vi: no
J. Craig Woods,
I presume you saw the response from Mike. Also, I guess I was in vim
and not vi.
Randy Kramer
J. Craig Woods wrote:
OK, I'll bite. I can always learn something new, and enjoy it. What is
recording mode in vi? I know you don't mean insert mode, and I don't
think you are
Randy Kramer wrote:
J. Craig Woods,
I presume you saw the response from Mike. Also, I guess I was in vim
and not vi.
Randy Kramer
J. Craig Woods wrote:
OK, I'll bite. I can always learn something new, and enjoy it. What is
recording mode in vi? I know you don't mean insert mode,
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