editors in rescue mode

[Karl Larsen]

Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 15:26 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>
>   
>>     Well, I opened a Terminal and brought up the wikipedia and tried to 
>> learn VI. It is the pits! I tried to write a simple text file and then 
>> modify it and it was a total failure. Then I used VIM and it is a breath 
>> of fresh air. With it I corrected everything and I think I would trust 
>> myself to do a system mod in an emergency with VIM. But if it it takes 
>> VI then I will reload the whole thing :-)
>>     
>
> vim is just an extension of vi.  On Ubuntu they are in fact the same
> binaries.  vi comands are a subset of vim commands.
>   
    Good to know. I dropped to init 1 on both Hardy and Gutsy and used 
vim to edit a file /home/harl/test. Here it is:

karl at karl-hardy:~$ cat /home/karl/test



what is this thing doing I wonder?
I had hoped for some nice and easy way to write a file. I guess it is 
working but it
is not clear yet what to do.
    Now let us try to finish and save it. Well it seems to
work pretty well using vim. But wish vi was as good.
Well I have discovered vim works on the Hardy root login at init 1.
This is great news and makes me happy to have learned vim.
Well I rebooted to Gutsy and it also has vim at init 1. So it is safe to 
say
forget vi and learn vim. It is many times easier to run!

73 Karl


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