From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 23 05:38:13 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39F1A16A4CE for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 05:38:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fed1rmmtao09.cox.net (fed1rmmtao09.cox.net [68.230.241.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5C1643D2D for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 05:38:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mnavarre@cox.net) Received: from reichlieu.lan ([68.6.195.68]) by fed1rmmtao09.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.00 201-2131-117-20041022) with ESMTP id <20041223053812.FPCY2638.fed1rmmtao09.cox.net@reichlieu.lan>; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 00:38:12 -0500 Received: from reichlieu.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by reichlieu.lan (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iBN5cBpD041188; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 21:38:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mnavarre@cox.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reichlieu.lan (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id iBN5cA06041187; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 21:38:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mnavarre@cox.net) X-Authentication-Warning: reichlieu.lan: mnavarre set sender to mnavarre@cox.net using -f From: Matt Navarre To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 21:38:08 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 References: <000601c4e78e$c13ed7f0$a23db918@D1TWQX41> <200412230035.iBN0Zxu26047@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <20041223014043.GB28829@gamerasmog.com> In-Reply-To: <20041223014043.GB28829@gamerasmog.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200412222138.10572.mnavarre@cox.net> X-SA-Scanned: 0 () X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.41 cc: Jerry McAllister cc: Joshua Tinnin cc: Leon Subject: Re: VIM X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 05:38:13 -0000 On Wednesday 22 December 2004 05:40 pm, Joshua Tinnin wrote: > On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 07:35:58PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have installed a VIM editor. > > > When I create a new file with this editor, I can't type anything. > > > What is wrong. > > > > I have not used VIM - installed it once, but never really used it. > > But, it is basically like vi to use, I think. I have a very basic vi > > HowTo that I wrote up for our sites. It might help you get started. > > > > It is at: http://scnc.k12.mi.us/howto/edit/vi.html > > I personally love vim. You can also try emacs, but you might as well get > used to vi if you're going to run any *nix - vim is basically vi > extended, although it will operate exactly like vi for the purists if > you configure it to do that. It's not intuitive, but once you get used > to it it's very efficient. I use it for all sorts of editing, including > composing email in Mutt. Joshua Lokken posted some good vim tutorials, > and there's another one here: http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/9039 > > Here's another vi tutorial: > http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/10/25/FreeBSD_Basics.html And, of course, there's always /usr/local/bin/vimtutor which is vim's 'canonical' tutorial. Any vi tutorial will teach you the basics of what you need to know about vim, but vim is *so much more*, once you get the vi basics under your fingers. > > - jt > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"