[plug] Vi cheat sheet

[Jon L. Miller]

Funny you should mention vim although I use vi /vim on the linux systems
I just started using vim for windows 2000 and it too is very nice.

jlm

On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 14:16, ryan at is.as.geeky.as wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 01:09:05PM +0800, Brad Campbell wrote:
> > I mean seriously.. what were they smoking when they wrote this thing?
> > Give me wordstar any day of the week :p)
> > 
> > Actually, I have had to finally learn vi.
> > Ever since I started using it, debian has had "ae" which had a command set
> > that sort of made sense to me. As of Woody it appears to be gone. So vi it
> > is.
> 
> [warning - irrelevant experiences with vim below]
> 
> I used to be an ae person about 4 months ago and vi(m) scared me.  Then 
> I sat down one day at work, downloaded heaps of vim command sheets and 
> forced myself to read and try out every command I could find.  The
> primary reason i tried it was to locate specific line numbers in Perl
> code, ae couldn't help me there (from what I could find).
> 
> Since that day it took me about 2 weeks of steady Perl editing 
> (vim provides syntax highlighting, brace balancing,etc) and now 
> I can't use anything else.  I find the multiple windows especially 
> useful when I do Perl CGI using HTML::Template and need to be editing 2+ 
> files at once.  I'm writing this email in vim too.
> 
> The only side-effect is that I can no longer comprehend Perl code that
> is not all pretty colours :)  (Though some would argue Perl code is never
> comprehendable)
> 
> In the past I missed the block (^@ ^W ^Y) functions of ae, but once you 
> learn about the visual mode in vim you'll happily convert :)
> 
> You can see why they chose all the commands as they did once you start 
> using it a bit.  They actually make a LOT more sence than ae shortcuts 
> (though I was cursing the first few days)
> 
> Ryan
> 
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