On Thursday 10 of February 2011 17:59:26 Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:52:16 +0100, Jan de Groot wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 17:24 +0200, Ionuț Bîru wrote:
> >> we did had vi being a stripped vim package in the past. We got rid of
> >> it
> >> because upstream vim started to not helping arch users because "it
> >> was
> >> broken". That impression was given by our users who didn't understand
> >> that python and other crap that vim support is in vim package and not
> >> in vi.
> >>
> >> now the same situation is now. Some users don't understand that vi is
> >> nvi and what they want is in vim.
> >
> > I don't think we should go back to a fucked vim package with /etc/virc
> > like we had it in the past. We switched from that to nvi, which fucked
> > up files if they contained unicode stuff (it would just segfault in the
> > middle of a save operation, leaving you with a broken file).
> > After that, we decided to go for busybox, which works fairly well as vi,
> > is maintained, but doesn't do anything that looks like vim.
> >
> > IMHO vi is totally useless on most systems. I prefer to uninstall it and
> > do ln -s vim /usr/bin/vi instead. Users who complain about vi being too
> > limited should do that too.
>
> I wonder the same. I cannot imagine why anybody would want to use vi.
> Personally I would not mind if nano was the only interactive editor in
> [core]. But keeping the current busybox vi is also fine.
Hello,
first, I apologize for off-topic, but i seek help on vim.
Reading this thread I decided I want to learn how to get more from vim, so I
started with vimtutor.
So far I ran into two issues that were incompatible with the vimtutor,
*) 7G moves you to line 7, I had to do 7gg instead
*) "
Lesson 5.3: SELECTING TEXT TO WRITE
** To save part of the file, type v motion :w FILENAME **
1. Move the cursor to this line.
2. Press v and move the cursor to the fifth item below. Notice that the
text is highlighted.
3. Press the : character. At the bottom of the screen :'<,'> will
appear.
4. Type w TEST , where TEST is a filename that does not exist yet. Verify
that you see :'<,'>w TEST before you press <ENTER>.
5. Vim will write the selected lines to the file TEST. Use :!dir or !ls
to see it. Do not remove it yet! We will use it in the next lesson.
"...this doesn't work for me, I switch to visual mode, after : the '<,'>
doesn't appear though.
Can somebody enlighten me, is this behavior
-some config in vim -- where and how can I set it?
-mistakes in the tutorial (could be updated)
-mistakes in vim
Many thanks, mark the vimmer :)
--
Marek Otahal :o)
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