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Subject: Re: vi question
To: andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 09:41:10 -0700 (PDT)
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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