Re: Changes to apt-get
On (24/05/05 13:27), Michael Marsh wrote:
> On 5/24/05, Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk> wrote:
> > Try gvim and vim; the former has a gui interface and will give you a
> > slow intro to vim (command line version) itself. There is a very good
> > book 'Vi IMproved' by Steve Qualine. Learning vim is well worth the
> > effort and if you are ever confronted with a system that only has vi
> > available, your new skills will be invaluable.
>
> Heh. I recently changed my alternative for vi from vim to nvi.
> Having learned "real" vi first, I was constantly annoyed by
> differences in vim that I kept forgetting about.
Ah! well I confess to being a complete novice prior to learning vim.
All that I read suggested that knowing vim would suffice to use vi if it
were the only editor available.
It seemed the main choice of *nix editor is between emacs and vi(m); I
found emacs daunting mainly because it seemed to be capable of much more
than editing text.
Regards
Clive
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