Steve Harris wrote: >True, you have to decide wether its worth the effort. When I started >developing on UNIX machines I watched the old hands and relaised that 1) >they were all much faster than me, and 2) they (almost) all used vi. So I >took the effort to learn, in the knowledge that I would spend a lot of my >life typing. It took makes months to be able to fly vi, but now you can >prise it from my cold dead fingers. > Indeed. I have occasion to use OpenOffice, it's very nice, but it's not this writer's tool of choice. I think I'm just partial to things unadorned, like classical guitars, ;) >For anyone whos thinking of learning, dont start by trying to digest it >all, just start with i A yy dd, and go from there, its all pretty >logical when you get into it. > > The O'Reilly book on vi is a very good little volume. It includes a handy pull-out for quick command reference. I've also come to admire the emacs Way, especially with anything Lisp-oriented. Powerful stuff there too. Best, dp
