On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:54:50 +0000, Invisible wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
> 
>> User error.  He didn't know how to exit vi with shift-ZZ or :q! or :w!
> 
> One might argue "designer error" for making the system so non-obvious to
> operate. :-P

It's obvious once you learn to operate it.  Consider the history of vi - 
dumb terminals.  No ANSI.  No GUI.

But a man page.  "man vim" is a good starting place on a modern *nix 
system for learning how to use vi.

Jim

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