From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Jun 17 15:26:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA22378 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 15:26:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from minos.dyn.ml.org (dominus@client-151-197-112-160.bellatlantic.net [151.197.112.160]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA22363 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 15:26:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dominus@minos.dyn.ml.org) Received: from localhost (dominus@localhost) by minos.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA02372; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 18:25:46 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dominus@minos.dyn.ml.org) Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 18:25:46 -0400 (EDT) From: James X-Sender: dominus@localhost Reply-To: higginsj@iname.com To: Tim Gerchmez cc: Gerald Victor Fontenay , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: re: vi In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980616212412.007ee350@mx.serv.net> 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 Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Tim Gerchmez wrote: > At 07:22 PM 6/16/98 -0700, Gerald Victor Fontenay wrote: > >if you do even the smallest amount of administration, you simply need > >to know how to use vi..it's not just for emergencies..everyone who uses > >a unix system "should" learn atleast the basic commands..this has been > >quite the thread in this mailing list..is it really that hard to learn > >a few keystrokes? > > No. The simple fact is, I don't want to right now, and don't yet see the > point in doing so. Personally, I believe this thread got heated because I > basically insulted an original, holy Unix text editor. Thou shalt not > denigrate Vi.. it's in the Unix Bible. So anyway, here are these Unix I don'thave it but I think the Linux Bible has a chapter on Vi. Or at least a copy of the man page. James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message