[Novalug] VI - rieties (was Re: vi question)

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Sunday 12 April 2009 10:40:56 am Nick Danger wrote:
> Beartooth wrote:
> 
> > 
> >  	For an old tired lazy man, who's been shirking learning 
> > any real editor for over a decade, would anyone care to comment 
> > on varieties of vi -- vim, vim enhanced, etc? (I prefer the CLI 
> > *after* my gouty fumblefingers have learned it, but have a lot 
> > easier time remembering GUI things that I don't know well -- and 
> > I'm not likely ever to learn to write code ...)
> 
> 
> Just learn "vi"  The others all add enhancements such as colored text,
> extra options for find/replace etc etc, but if you learn plain old "vi"
> (insert/command mode, when not to do a :wq! etc) you'll be fine. Not
> that enhanced text isn't nice, its just that your basic vi skills are
> always transportable where as if you get used to the fancyness and
> someone hands you a Sol 2.6 box with vi on it, you might get shocked.

Ugh, yeah old Solaris boxen are why I learned the :e scp:// trick.  Real vi 
doesn't have backspace-beyond-insertion-point.  I really like being able to 
use backspace though.  ci{ is a nice addition in vim, but not having it isn't 
nearly as annoying as the backspace thing.

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
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