On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 15:45, David Colburn wrote: > On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 12:32, Alan Harding wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 15:08, Thomas A. Hulslander wrote: > > > OK. I found vi tutorial on line and found our that saving is done with > > > ZZ. Who would have guessed. > > Isn't it amazing how something so critical to the use of a common Linux > tool like vi is so difficult to discover -- such assumed knowledge is a > chronic impediment to the widespread usage of Linux by non-geeks. > > BTW: Is case critical? ZZ or zz, or only ZZ? >
At least they did not send you to emacs :) If you are using X try the gui version of vi, gvim I use it with the -reverse option and several commands in ~/.vimrc to get a rich syntax checking, autoindenting, gui text editor that is hard to beat. In fact I have aliased vi to gvim -reverse. I HATED all the cryptic stuff I hade to learn when I first started using linux but it is now second nature. Part of the problem is that it is such a rich environment that ther is a lot more to learn. At least there is documentation available for most stuff. BTW there are a couple of vim related packages that need to me installed if you are going to use gvim. vim-common-6.0-7.13 vim-X11-6.0-7.13 vim-minimal-6.0-7.13 vim-enhanced-6.0-7.13 You should be ableto find a vi cheat sheet on the web and every "how to use linux book I have has a vi section. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
