Comments on: Dig Into Unix: vi

By: [M]etabrain [E]ntry [L]og » Blog Archive » Workflow hack weekend

[M]etabrain [E]ntry [L]og » Blog Archive » Workflow hack weekend — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:57:00 +0000

[...] out my vim; go through vimtutor, learn some shortcuts, put in a nice theme, get expansion of fixed text [...]

By: Erik Westrup

Erik Westrup — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:48:24 +0000

VI is nice, thanks for the article!

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:46:08 +0000

You can, if it is on the system you are using. Nano isn’t on many unix systems by default. Often, vi is the only editor installed. Odds are that some day you will be using a unix system and the only editor at your disposal is going to be vi (Gentoo, AIX and others). Learning the basics of vi is a good idea for anyone who wants to use unix. As a unix system administrator, I can speak from experience and I can tell you that I am glad I learned vi. And we should mention that while you’re in vi, simply issue :h and hit enter to view the help. Of course, Google is also a good resource.

By: Apple News » Dig Into Unix: Standard Streams

Apple News » Dig Into Unix: Standard Streams — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:37:04 +0000

[...] OS sees it, which is slightly different from how the rest of us see it through the Finder. In the second installment, we took a look at vi, the ancient text editor fit for [...]

By: Dig Into Unix: Standard Streams

Dig Into Unix: Standard Streams — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:02:03 +0000

[...] OS sees it, which is slightly different from how the rest of us see it through the Finder. In the second installment, we took a look at vi, the ancient text editor fit for [...]

By: Jon Buys

Jon Buys — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:59:46 +0000

@carnz Hey thanks! I guess you learn something new every day, but I doubt that I’ll ever be able to actually *not* do wq! :)

@Marto @archie Thanks for the kind words, I’m glad you liked the article.

@HazardousPaste Ewhatzitmacs? Bah! vi is the one true text editor! :)

By: Reclusive Monkey

Reclusive Monkey — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:04:17 +0000

@Hieronymus: nano won’t always be installed.

I read the same advice a long time ago, that vi will always be installed on any *nix system, and its probably the best advice I ever read.

By: Evan Schiff

Evan Schiff — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:49:04 +0000

agreed, but i don’t think ! on :x does anything. :x works great just by itself

By: Hieronymus

Hieronymus — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:15:27 +0000

Why not use nano?

By: HazardousPaste

HazardousPaste — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:02:30 +0000

nano or emacs forever!