On (24/05/05 13:27), Michael Marsh wrote: > On 5/24/05, Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
