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Re: newbie



Quoth Gaven Cohen on Fri, Apr 02, 1999:
> If you're familiar with DOS edit.com, or like editors, I'd really
> recommend JOE (Joe's Own Editor)...  its similar, and the keys aren't too
> difficult to learn.  Failing that, even Pine is easier than vi.

Emacs (which I don't use, I'm a vi junkie) is pretty easy to
learn, and it's very powerful.  It has a nice tutorial built in.

> vi's great for 'experts' though... it gets things done really quickly,
> especially over lagged telnet connections.  Back from the "good old days",
> many Unix gurus will tell you that "*real* men use vi".

Heretic!  _Real_ men use ed.

> Unfortunately I don't have any URLs for you.

Look at the following pages about vi:
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~tmgil/vi.html
http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/vi/

Both of these pages are very good and contain links to the vi
documentation.  I also advise you to look at the vi docs from the
4.4BSD User's Supplementary Documents, and "man vi".

But Emacs is easier for the beginner.

Vadik.

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