On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:20:05 +0000, Invisible wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
> 
>> It's obvious once you learn to operate it.
> 
> Isn't everything? ;-)

As long as you take the time to learn it instead of giving up after 5 
minutes and declare it "impossible". ;-)

>> 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.)

The current man page is pretty good.  vi = vim, they're the same program 
now.

Jim

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