POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Compiling stuff : Re: Compiling stuff Server Time
30 Sep 2024 21:33:42 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Compiling stuff  
From: Invisible
Date: 17 Dec 2008 04:20:05
Message: <4948c445$1@news.povray.org>
Jim Henderson wrote:

> It's obvious once you learn to operate it.

Isn't everything? ;-)

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

I'm pretty sure when I tried that, it told you how to invoke vi and all 
the command-line switches, but not how to actually work the editor. (A 
bit like the man page for GCC not telling you how to write C programs.)

(Also, I'm almost cetain it was vi, not vim.)


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