text editing in ubuntu

[Chris Mohler]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Brian Clarkson<brian at clarkson.id.au> wrote:
> "A simple, sane ~/.vimrc that starts vim in insertmode, and has shortcut
> keys
> for saving/quiting:"
>
> I am a relative newbie and I don't really understand what the line quoted
> above means.

"Sane" as in "not crazy".  :)

I think he was just pointing out that using vim without at least a
basic .vimrc file is crazy.  I tend to agree :)

And yes "~" indicates the home directory - so the file is
'/home/YOURUSER/.vimrc'.

HTH,
Chris