[kwlug-disc] I give up, but with one question

[John Van Ostrand]

On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 7:37 PM Nickle, Brian <brian at nickle.ca> wrote:

> I'm just a baby unix'er I thought PINE and PICO were from the 70s but they
> are a 90s invention.
>
> Still gotta know some vi to do initial configs on OS without nano
> installed by default.
>

There isn't a question there. I agree. I started with Unix 30 years ago
taking care of company and customer servers. I could have installed other
software on it, but 30 years ago I would have had to use UUCP to transfer
programs (companies rarely had Internet back then.) So vi was the way to
get things done, guaranteed.

I suggest you keep a cheat sheet handy, like
https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/32r85c/this_is_my_favorite_vim_cheat_sheet_does_anyone/#lightbox
(I picked it randomly.)

You don't need to know much to be proficient at simple modifications.
Various edit modes (insert, append, replace), saving files, searching for
text, jumping to lines, deleting characters and lines.

-- 
John Van Ostrand
At large on sabbatical
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