>>> 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". ;-)

Actually it was 2 hours and not 5 minutes, so :-P

>>> 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.

I'm just astonished that after all the editor wars, there still isn't a 
Unix text-mode editor that's actually *easy* to use, that's all...

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