A vi tutorial
The O’Reilly Network just posted a vi tutorial by Wei-Meng Lee. As much as I can’t stand vi, I’ve needed an article like this for a long time. There are certain situations in which neither BBEdit nor emacs are available — a newly-installed Solaris system, for example — or when I don’t want to deal with emacs’ annoying backup files, and I have to resort to vi at those times. I’ve learned enough to get by with vi, but now that I’ve read the article I’ll be a bit more comfortable in it.
Laura Said,
February 24, 2003 @ 5:47 am
See also the “vitutor” command…
Brian Said,
February 24, 2003 @ 7:45 am
Emacs backup files? Just do a M-x set-variable RET backup-inhibited RET t RET, and backup files won’t be made (for that session). (Or stick a (set-variable backup-inhibited t) in your .emacs file, and it will persist).