Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 09:41:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> To: andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu Cc: roberte@mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de, kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, mrm@Mole.ORG, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vi question Message-ID: <199608051641.JAA05726@athena.tera.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960803220045.23515A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> from Annelise Anderson at "Aug 3, 96 11:01:48 pm"
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According to Annelise Anderson: > > > I would not have bothered to write this reply were it not that people > who learn Unix really ought to learn vi, since it is the > universal Unix text editor; pico seems to be a poor little thing by > comparison; and one can hardly expect a new user to learn emacs just > to edit a few files in /etc. So vi seems more or less inevitable, and > it really deserves a task-oriented three or four pages. > > Actually I like vi, and I've figured out how to make it do most of > the listed tasks. It just occured to me that I have a small (132-line, 4500-byte) HowTo file on vi. I found this some forgotten where several years ago when running a public-access system. Half or fewer of my users knew vi and this introductory file gave them a quick hand-up. Who should I send this to in the FreeBSD world? Is anybody interested? gary kline
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