VI IMproved Help [ Red Hat Linux 9 ]

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Alright,
I hear everyone rave about VI being this awesome text editor for HTML and what not....how the heck do you use it? When I try to type in it...nothing happens. I really feel dumb here. Can someone please tell me what is so special about this, and possibly give me tips on using it? Any good ol' text editor like notpad (in windows) works better than this (....as for what I know of it now)

Please Help 😱 😕

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[notfred]

press i, type. 🙂

VI is not in the least bit intutive, you'll never figure it out without looking at a tutorial.

 

[Nothinman]

There should be a program 'vimtutor', run that and it'll help you get the basics down. vi is a real PITA at first, but it works really well once you get good with it.

 

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[thanks 🙂 ]

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Yeah fortunately the first time I ran vi, I knew enough to find the pid and kill it. 😛 Ditto what Nothinman said, it's odd at first, but once you get good you can fly (and typing into things such as browser windows all of a sudden becomes very annoying since you can't use the useful vi key combos you are so used to 🙂)

 

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Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
Yeah fortunately the first time I ran vi, I knew enough to find the pid and kill it. 😛 Ditto what Nothinman said, it's odd at first, but once you get good you can fly (and typing into things such as browser windows all of a sudden becomes very annoying since you can't use the useful vi key combos you are so used to 🙂)

When I made this thread, I knew (and have been) waiting for your reply 🙂😛

Well Im working on it...🙂

Thanks guys

 

[Vadatajs]

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/vi-guide.xml
The cheat-sheet image

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Don't think either of those links mentioned that gg takes you to the beginning of the file and G takes you to the end. Control G gives you info about the file.

 

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when I type a key do I have to press another key such as ALT+ G or whatever? How does it know if im either typing or commanding?

 

[Nothinman]

How does it know if im either typing or commanding?

At the bottom left it should says something like "--INSERT--" when you're in insert mode, when you're in command mode nothing is down there.

When it doubt hit esc a few times to make sure you're in command mode =)

 

[TheOmegaCode]

When it doubt hit esc a few times to make sure you're in command mode =)

Here, here! I've found that after "discovering" VI(M) I hit the 'Esc' key a lot more often...

 

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thanks again 🙂