At 11:35 PM 10/22/00 -0400, you wrote:
Moral to the story: get comfy with vi. It will sneak up on you when
you least expect it. The small O'Reilly book _Learning the vi Editor_
is relatively inexpensive and features a simple walk-through tutorial
that will stand the uninitiated in good stead. It too comes with a
handy reference card.
Too true - vi is often the only editor on a rescue/boot disk for space
reasons, and if the only vi command you know is
Esc : q Enter
then you're in trouble.
cat > filename << EOF
type-out-file-contents-carefully
^D
Thats a *last* resort, especially if the file is XF86Config or something
huge. A complex lilo.conf is bad enough :)
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Criggie
