From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Jun 14 22:09:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA12156 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sun, 14 Jun 1998 22:09:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from minos.dyn.ml.org (dominus@client-151-197-32-38.bellatlantic.net [151.197.32.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA12148 for ; Sun, 14 Jun 1998 22:09:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dominus@lies.dyn.ml.org) Received: from localhost (dominus@localhost) by minos.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA01131; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 01:08:34 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dominus@lies.dyn.ml.org) X-Authentication-Warning: minos.dyn.ml.org: dominus owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 01:08:33 -0400 (EDT) From: James X-Sender: dominus@minos.dyn.ml.org Reply-To: higginsj@iname.com To: Sue Blake cc: Tim Gerchmez , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A first encounter with 'vi' In-Reply-To: <19980615144252.14431@welearn.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Sue Blake wrote: > On Sun, Jun 14, 1998 at 02:53:01PM -0700, Tim Gerchmez wrote: > > > > Oh my lord... save me from vi... ;-) > > > > Today, I was unfortunate enough to encounter it for the first time when > > trying to change my shell from sh back to csh (don't ask). > > BTW, did anyone ever tell you it's trendy to use bash as your shell? tcsh for me... :) > So, what's the bad news? Well, since you asked... you *can* get a version > of vi that will run under windoze :-) http://www.vim.org actually it is vim (Vi IMproved) but it works just as well. They have it for Win32, 16-bit DOS, and P-Mode DOS James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message