From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 7 10:48:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from manatee.mammalia.org (manatee.mammalia.org [216.231.50.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B63C37BC09 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 10:48:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rjoseph@mammalia.org) Received: by manatee.mammalia.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B907E11CD21; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 10:48:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 10:48:35 -0700 From: R Joseph Wright To: John Murphy Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Windows in vi (was Ctrl X C V) Message-ID: <20000807104835.A74753@mammalia.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from bigotfo@bigfoot.com on Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 01:02:27PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG And John Murphy spoke: > Damien Tougas wrote: > > >Not too many people know this, but the FreeBSD version of vi actually > >lets you edit multiple files simultaneously in different windows. > >While editing a file, type the following: > > > >:E filename > > > >to open 'filename' into a new window. You can then switch between the > >windows using Ctrl-W. > > > >If you like vi, but want even more power try installing vim from the > >ports. > > > >Hope this helps. > > That makes vi a lot easier for me to use. Thanks for the tip. I'm > about to try vim - surprised it needs tcl as a dependency. > > Thanks, also, to everyone who responded to the previous thread. > > John. I recommend vile, also under ports. It is very powerful, and leaner than vim. If you want to use vim, it's possible to build it without X, hence no tcl dependency. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message