[ale] Another Mac headache.

Neal Rhodes neal at mnopltd.com
Sun Jun 3 22:32:00 EDT 2012


I consider knowledge of VI no less important to life and limb than
knowledge of CPR. 

On Sun, 2012-06-03 at 22:17 -0400, Drifter wrote:
> All well and good -- but I find a need for VI/VIM about once every two 
> years or so.  I am not going to remember arcane commands/key combinations 
> that I use that infrequently.  It would have taken longer to find the 
> tutorial and read through it to figure out how to get the cursor quickly to 
> the end of the file than to just continue pressing on the down-arrow. :) 
> After all I didn't want to actually edit the file, just read it.
> 
> Sean
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> On Sunday, June 03, 2012 04:49:04 pm Jim Kinney wrote:
> > age is no excuse for not learning! The cheat sheet here
> > http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/vimcheat.html covers the basics. If
> > you run vimtutor command, it opens a tutorial that is very good.
> > 
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