Re: DON'T PANIC

I was exposed to vi several years ago. It made me ever so thankful for
the nice people who developed pico.

On 8/10/2012 15:38, ChasM Marshall wrote:
> Linux users should try vi in a terminal;
>

> $ vi        (now type in the vi command ":help 42")

>
> <esc>
> :
> h
> e
> l
> p
>
> 4
> 2
> <Enter>
>

>          (And you may need to know how to gracefully quit)

>
> <esc>
> :
> q
> <Enter>
>
> $
>
> The escape-colon sequence is a toggle between command line mode and
> edit mode.
> Personally I've always felt that vi came from another galaxy... and I
> press <insert> once to begin every edit.
>
> (-: Chas.M. :-)
>
>
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