Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:19:58 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, bf1783@googlemail.com, Manish Jain <invalid.pointer@gmail.com>, Erik Osterholm <freebsd-lists-erik@erikosterholm.org>, Erich Dollansky <erich@apsara.com.sg> Subject: Re: The question of moving vi to /bin Message-ID: <20090626201958.GE35345@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20090626080102.ccc76a10.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <4A430505.2020909@gmail.com> <200906261033.58894.erich@apsara.com.sg> <20090626045808.fb3b0c8d.freebsd@edvax.de> <200906261203.23172.erich@apsara.com.sg> <20090626061157.4e846d36.freebsd@edvax.de> <20090626052317.GB32901@thought.org> <20090626080102.ccc76a10.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 08:01:02AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:23:17 -0700, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote: > > what about j, k [down, up]. and h,l [left, right]? > > why reach over for the arrow keys! oh, and o, and O > > [open line below/Above], and > > > > \search > > > > and that's 97 and 44/100ths of what you'll ever need. > > Well, I'm not good at vi. As a lazy guy (TM) I honestly prefer > ee, as long as the cursor keys work. If they don't, well, I > have a "vi keyboard reference" in my "extremely important > documentation folder" - and yes, it is a real folder, not a > directory. :-) So if everything fails, there's still vi and > the content of /rescue to get you back working. > > Maybe this is because vi scared me when using WEGA (which is > the GDR's equivalent of UNIX System III, run on the P8000 > multi-user workstation). Well, we were all young, many many > years in the distant past. :-) > Ah yes.... true words, never spoken, etc. And I had (past tensed) one of those reference cards ... come to think of it. There're still tricks of vi I don't know. Or, to be correct, nvi, which was said to be a "feature for feature, bug for bug" clone. Yes, i am a geek, just not an extremist:) > > > > ps: when bill j. dies and meets st. pete at the pearly > > gate, pete'll say: "So what did you do--" And bill > > will say, "I wrote vi." red-carpet is rolled out > > :_) > > When Bill G. arrives at the pearly gate, ol' Pete won't ask > him what he did do, instead send him to MICROS~1 C:\HELL.EXE > with the advice to click on the devil to start the everlasting > pain. :-) > > (*Yes*!) LMAO. gary > > -- > Polytropon > From Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org For FBSD list: http://transfinite.thought.org/slicejourney.php The 4.98a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php
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