From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Jun 14 19:32:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA20808 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sun, 14 Jun 1998 19:32:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vanessa.eliuk.org (pme69.sunshine.net [209.17.178.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA20747 for ; Sun, 14 Jun 1998 19:31:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net) Received: from localhost (cagey@localhost) by vanessa.eliuk.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA00666; Sun, 14 Jun 1998 19:31:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cagey@vanessa.eliuk.org) Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 19:31:15 -0700 (PDT) From: "Kevin G. Eliuk" Reply-To: "Kevin G. Eliuk" To: Tim Gerchmez cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A first encounter with 'vi' In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980614145301.007ed5c0@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 Sun, 14 Jun 1998, 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). That has to be => the editor from hell (forgive me if I'm insulting any old-school *nix'ers => here, but this IS a forum for newbies). I thought I was in hell when I was => in that editor (obviously one of the original Unix editors back when => mainframes and dumb terminals were all the rage). I hope I don't commit => too many sins in my life and when I die be damned to an eternity of typing => full-length articles using vi . The damn thing even had the nerve => to send me mail stating that I used it incorrectly afterward. An editor => that Emails you and tells you about your mistakes and how to recover from => them? Only in Unix... ;-) If you ar interested there is a port of a small tutorial that comes packed with Nvi, and if I am not mistaken, it is now seperate in a port. After doing it and trying some trials on global substitutions and the like I think that you'll appreciate the power and simplicity that is not available in all editors. Actually, the learning of vi(and ed) has its benefits. No different than having knowledge of `edlin' in dos. You'll never be denied an editor under most circumstances when wanting to work in the field on anothers machine. => I truly am glad I don't *only* use FreeBSD (grin). Sometimes the ease of => use of Win95/NT can be such sweet relief to us *nix newbies... Regards, Discover Rock Solid /@\ Kevin G. Eliuk Discover FreeBSD /~~~\ http://www.FreeBSD.Org /~~~~~\ /~~~~~~~\ --==**==-- --==**==-- --==**==----==**==-- --==**==-- --==**==-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message