i am learning how to use vi.


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Re: hello....
By: Matthew Munson to ALL on Fri Mar 14 2025 11:53 am

i am learning how to use vi.

use joe instead!
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Re: hello....
By: Matthew Munson to ALL on Fri Mar 14 2025 11:53 am

i am learning how to use vi.

https://vim-adventures.com/

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Re: hello....
By: MRO to Matthew Munson on Fri Mar 14 2025 04:03 pm

i am learning how to use vi.

use joe instead!

I feel like people learning vi is like a badge of honor or something. I'm glad that there are more options these days!

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Re: hello....
By: The Lizard Master to MRO on Sat Mar 15 2025 08:05 am

Re: hello....
By: MRO to Matthew Munson on Fri Mar 14 2025 04:03 pm

i am learning how to use vi.

use joe instead!

I feel like people learning vi is like a badge of honor or something. I'm glad that there are more options these days!

well, i dunno. vi isn't hard. I used it way back years ago.
i just used joe one time and i was hooked.
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Re: hello....
By: The Lizard Master to MRO on Sat Mar 15 2025 08:05:15

Re: hello....
By: MRO to Matthew Munson on Fri Mar 14 2025 04:03 pm

i am learning how to use vi.

use joe instead!

I feel like people learning vi is like a badge of honor or something. I'm glad that there are more options these days!

I've always preferred Nano myself..
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Re: hello....
By: kk4qbn to The Lizard Master on Sat Mar 15 2025 11:05 pm

I feel like people learning vi is like a badge of honor or something. I'm
glad that there are more options these days!

I've always preferred Nano myself..

yup, Nano for the win for sure, for me. Although I also started out with vi back in the day.
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kk4qbn wrote to The Lizard Master <=-

use joe instead!

I feel like people learning vi is like a badge of honor or something. I'm glad that there are more options these days!

I've always preferred Nano myself..

I got in the habit of using vi because it was usually installed by
default. For config file editing, it's great. I wouldn't write the Great American Novel with it, though.



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Re: hello....
By: kk4qbn to The Lizard Master on Sat Mar 15 2025 11:05 pm

I feel like people learning vi is like a badge of honor or something. I'm glad that there are more options these days!

I've always preferred Nano myself..

Nano is all I use now.

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Re: hello....
By: Matthew Munson to ALL on Fri Mar 14 2025 11:53 am

i am learning how to use vi.

I like using vi, there is plenty of documentation for it.

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Re: hello....
By: kk4qbn to The Lizard Master on Sat Mar 15 2025 11:05 pm

I feel like people learning vi is like a badge of honor or something. I'm glad that there are more options these days!

I've always preferred Nano myself..

Nano is all I use now.

While I'm a vi guy for config files, nano has a place in my heart from
all the years I used PINE/PICO as my primary interface to the net.
Mailing lists, Usenet, email -- that was the 'net before the web took
off and Windows 95 made GUI apps easy. Easier.



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I have a Android phone that has a icon for Chrome.
Been trying to figure how to use Chrome.
I tried typing him in it but it acts like a dumb terminal.

Reminds Me of back in the 1970's when I tried typing print hi on a Atari 400 PC in a store display and nothing happened.
I didn't realize the Atari 400 couldn't do BASIC without having a BASIC Cartridge plugged in the empty slot on top of it.

DUH!!!!
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Nano is all I use now.

While I'm a vi guy for config files, nano has a place in my heart from
all the years I used PINE/PICO as my primary interface to the net.
Mailing lists, Usenet, email -- that was the 'net before the web took
off and Windows 95 made GUI apps easy. Easier.

That was how I got into using nano, too. It was the default editor for
email (PINE) and news posts on my ISP's shell account. ;) I was using it before I knew what it was.


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Re: hello....
By: Ed Vance to Matthew Munson on Tue Mar 18 2025 09:28 am

I have a Android phone that has a icon for Chrome.
Been trying to figure how to use Chrome.
I tried typing him in it but it acts like a dumb terminal.

update your app. or go into the app settings and clear the data
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Re: hello....
By: Bogomips to Matthew Munson on Mon Mar 17 2025 10:19:48

Re: hello....
By: Matthew Munson to ALL on Fri Mar 14 2025 11:53 am

i am learning how to use vi.

I like using vi, there is plenty of documentation for it.

Well.. I don't like reading documentation, so nano has my heart. :-)
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Re: Re: hello....
By: poindexter FORTRAN to The Lizard Master on Mon Mar 17 2025 16:21:50

I've always preferred Nano myself..

Nano is all I use now.

While I'm a vi guy for config files, nano has a place in my heart from all the years I used PINE/PICO as my primary interface to the net. Mailing lists, Usenet, email -- that was the 'net before the web took off and Windows 95 made GUI apps easy. Easier.

I still type pico just automatically when wanting to read/edit a file. With garuda and manjaro, I've had to setup an alias for "edit" and "pico" to point to nano..
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Re: Re: hello....
By: kk4qbn to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed Mar 19 2025 06:48 am

I still type pico just automatically when wanting to read/edit a file. With garuda and manjaro, I've had to setup an alias for "edit" and "pico" to poin

Speaking of muscle memory, whenever I'm typing in a different editor like nano or notepad or whatever, I always end up with a stray "h", "j", "k", or "l" (the "arrow" keys in vi). What sucks more is when these habits kick in while writing long emails in Outlook. In vi, I would finish by hitting Esc to get out of edit mode and then typing ":wq" to write out and quit. Well, in Outlook, hitting Esc brings up "Are you sure you want to abort?", then the ":wq" does nothing, but pressing enter after that does the Yes/Ok on the dialog box! And there goes my long ass email that I now have to remember and type all over again.
:wq
j/k

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Re: Re: hello....
By: phigan to kk4qbn on Wed Mar 19 2025 07:54 am

Re: Re: hello....
By: kk4qbn to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed Mar 19 2025 06:48 am

I still type pico just automatically when wanting to read/edit a file. With garuda and manjaro, I've had to setup an alias for "edit" and "pico" to poin

Speaking of muscle memory, whenever I'm typing in a different editor like nano or notepad or whatever, I always end up with a stray "h", "j", "k", or "l" (the "arrow" keys in vi). What sucks more is when these habits kick in while writing long emails in Outlook. In vi, I would finish by hitting Esc to get out of edit mode and then typing ":wq" to write out and quit. Well, in Outlook, hitting Esc brings up "Are you sure you want to abort?", then the ":wq" does nothing, but pressing enter after that does the Yes/Ok on the dialog box! And there goes my long ass email that I now have to remember and type all over again.
:wq
j/k

Where hjkl keys work for cursor movement in vi/vim, the arrow keys work too. I use the arrows keys.
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Re: Re: hello....
By: Digital Man to phigan on Wed Mar 19 2025 01:15 pm

Where hjkl keys work for cursor movement in vi/vim, the arrow keys work too. use the arrows keys.

Not on super old vi that comes with Solaris 2.x or various other OSes :).
While I started out using vi with arrow keys, I made myself get used to hjkl as I found myself logging into those commercial OSes for work.

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Re: Re: hello....
By: phigan to Digital Man on Wed Mar 19 2025 01:24 pm

Re: Re: hello....
By: Digital Man to phigan on Wed Mar 19 2025 01:15 pm

Where hjkl keys work for cursor movement in vi/vim, the arrow keys work too. use the arrows keys.

Not on super old vi that comes with Solaris 2.x or various other OSes :). While I started out using vi with arrow keys, I made myself get used to hjkl as I found myself logging into those commercial OSes for work.

Ah, then I probably first learned vi back in the late '80s using hjkl as well, but my fingers have since lost the habit. I switch between multiple IDEs and editors many times a day (just about) every day, so I don't even really think about it anymore, my subconscious just remembers to hit the right keys (usually). :-)
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Re: Re: hello....
By: poindexter FORTRAN to The Lizard Master on Mon Mar 17 2025 04:21 pm

Yeah, nano for the win for me too. If you have been using vi for years, no biggie... but nano is great for the unintiated.

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Re: hello....
By: kk4qbn to Bogomips on Wed Mar 19 2025 06:41 am

agreed, nano is just easier for most people. But I do know some old unix or linux dudes that have been using vi since it's inception, and are wired for vi. I always have to look up the commands if I use it.

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phigan wrote to kk4qbn <=-

Speaking of muscle memory, whenever I'm typing in a different editor
like nano or notepad or whatever, I always end up with a stray "h",
"j", "k", or "l" (the "arrow" keys in vi). What sucks more is when
these habits kick in while writing long emails in Outlook.

I still have the urge to exit a console editor with ^KX, a command from
WordStar and later Qedit/TSE. Heck, it was a good key binding, why
invent another one?



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Re: Re: hello....
By: poindexter FORTRAN to phigan on Thu Mar 20 2025 04:53 pm

I still have the urge to exit a console editor with ^KX, a command from
WordStar and later Qedit/TSE. Heck, it was a good key binding, why

I know what you mean :). I was used to all the Wordstar 2000 key shortcuts and even had a printout that went over my XT keyboard to show what was what. I think I just had it because it looked cool to me, since I never really had to look at it.

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Re: hello....
By: kk4qbn to Bogomips on Wed Mar 19 2025 06:41 am

agreed, nano is just easier for most people. But I do know some old unix or linux dudes that have been using vi since it's inception, and are wired for vi. I always have to look up the commands if I use it.
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I have played with Ubuntu Linux some.
Vim I have tried but hadn't heard of Vi until reading this thread.
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Re: hello....
By: Hylian to kk4qbn on Thu Mar 20 2025 04:50:19

agreed, nano is just easier for most people. But I do know some old unix or linux dudes that have been using vi since it's inception, and are wired for vi. I always have to look up the commands if I use it.

me too.. for sure
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Re: hello....
By: Ed Vance to Hylian on Thu Mar 20 2025 05:00 pm

Vim I have tried but hadn't heard of Vi until reading this thread.

"Vim" stands for "vi improved" - it's kind of the modern successor to 'vi' (the original "visual" text editor for Unix). The version of vim installed by default on Debian Linux (and I assume Ubuntu Linux) is "vim-tiny" (a minimal install with a subset of features) and you'll want to install the 'vim' package to get the normal/full set of vi/vim features.

Neovim is another variant of 'vi' that's popular (I assume there are others). --
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On 20 Mar 2025, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...

I still have the urge to exit a console editor with ^KX, a command from
WordStar and later Qedit/TSE. Heck, it was a good key binding, why
invent another one?

then use 'joe' .. that's the real OG linux editor not this vi stuff ;)

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Re: hello....
By: Ed Vance to Hylian on Thu Mar 20 2025 05:00 pm

"Vim" stands for "vi improved" - it's kind of the modern successor to 'vi' (the original "visual" text editor for Unix). The version of vim installed by default on Debian Linux (and I assume Ubuntu Linux) is "vim-tiny" (a minimal install with a subset of features) and you'll want to install the 'vim' package to get the normal/full set of vi/vim features.

Neovim is another variant of 'vi' that's popular (I assume there are others). --
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Re: hello....
By: kk4qbn to Bogomips on Wed Mar 19 2025 06:41 am

Well.. I don't like reading documentation, so nano has my heart. :-)

Are you from Chatsworth, or is the BBS? The company I work for is headquartered in Dalton. Once in awhile we head up to North Georgia. I live in Mid Georgia waiting on the Masters Golf Tournament.

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Re: hello....
By: Bogomips to kk4qbn on Mon Mar 24 2025 10:36:14

Re: hello....
By: kk4qbn to Bogomips on Wed Mar 19 2025 06:41 am

Well.. I don't like reading documentation, so nano has my heart. :-)

Are you from Chatsworth, or is the BBS? The company I work for is headquartered in Dalton. Once in awhile we head up to North Georgia. I live in Mid Georgia waiting on the Masters Golf Tournament.

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Re: hello....
By: Ed Vance to Tim Wray on Mon Mar 24 2025 08:03 pm

Howdy! Hoosier,
Home here is New Albany down by the Ohio River. Ed

Hey there Ed! Up northwest of you in Bedford. Drop by my board sometime :) bwrbbs.ddns.net

Always good to see someone else in the local region hanging out in the BBS world still.

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Re: Re: hello....
By: fusion to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Mar 22 2025 04:19 am

then use 'joe' .. that's the real OG linux editor not this vi stuff ;)

What about 'ed' and even 'sed'? :)

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Re: hello....
By: kk4qbn to Bogomips on Mon Mar 24 2025 04:34 pm

Yeah, I live in Chatsworth, and Work in Dalton. So do you work in Textiles??

Yes I did, I'm on Disability now. I was an Extruder Technician then Building Maintenance. Some Hard A$$ Work. We like to visit Blue Ridge when we have time.

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