Thread: vi

**Bonker Gudd** · Aug 31st, 2001, 05:52 AM

I love vi!

It took a while to learn, but all you have to know is when in doubt press ESC.

I can still remember all the keys, even though I haven't used it for almost 6 years. I'll close my eyes and touch some keys at random...

o - open new line below current
d - delete (now much is deleted depends upon the next key)

**beachbum** · Aug 31st, 2001, 05:57 AM

well, U are looking better but i think that solitary confinement is doing strange things to your mind. I didnt even know that the Romans had computers but u learn something new every day.

gaffa · Aug 31st, 2001, 05:59 AM

Well, not much of a fan, but any program that has a "yank" command ("y" or "yy" to yank the line) has to have some merit.

- gaffa

**filburt** · Aug 31st, 2001, 06:02 AM

I don't know what you're talking about but I still think it's shite!

**beachbum** · Aug 31st, 2001, 06:04 AM

Originally posted by filburt
I don't know what you're talking about but I still think it's shite!

Well, I've seen it all now. Flibbert making an uninformed comment... what is the world coming tooooooooooo

**Bonker Gudd** · Aug 31st, 2001, 06:07 AM

Originally posted by filburt
I don't know what you're talking about but I still think it's shite!

You don't know what it is! You're the...

Hold on, who is that?

**filburtI** · Aug 31st, 2001, 06:08 AM

it's me

**filburt** · Aug 31st, 2001, 06:16 AM

Originally posted by filburtI
it's me

Imposter!

I'm the biggest ****** here NOT you!

**Bonker Gudd** · Aug 31st, 2001, 06:19 AM

*reaches for valium*

Oh god, we now have 3 Filburts on here

*wipes eyes*

Anyway, back to vi...

r - replace current character
k - move left

gaffa · Aug 31st, 2001, 06:29 AM

That's what I loved about vi - the sheer intuitiveness of the design.

I mean, logically, whenever some want to move left, the obvious key to press is 'k'. Nad naturally, to move down, you press 'L'.

- gaffa

**filburtI** · Aug 31st, 2001, 06:36 AM

Originally posted by filburt

Imposter!

I'm the biggest ****** here NOT you!

No I am you ***!

**HarryW** · Aug 31st, 2001, 06:38 AM

Whoever designed the vi interface needs a bloody good kicking.

Anyway, emacs is the daddy. vim is prefereable to vi if emacs isn't available.

**paulw** · Aug 31st, 2001, 07:45 AM

edlin was SO much more accessible.

Cheers,

P.

gaffa · Aug 31st, 2001, 07:50 AM

I'd (mercifully) forgotten about edlin. That was a complete pain...

- gaffa

**Wynd** · Aug 31st, 2001, 06:39 PM

The king of editors is Notepad of course

**filburt1** · Aug 31st, 2001, 06:55 PM

Originally posted by filburtI
it's me

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight... *considers reporting post but plays along just for fun*

**aknisely** · Aug 31st, 2001, 08:38 PM

Originally posted by filburtI
No, I am your ***!

**JungleMan** · Aug 31st, 2001, 08:50 PM

Originally posted by filburt1

No I am your ***!

Even better

**Mark Sreeves** · Sep 1st, 2001, 03:12 PM

Getting back to the subject of vi, well, editors anyway, I used to use a DOS editor called Multi Edit now that WAS as good editor. You could configure it to colour comments, reserved words etc by language, you could configure it to connect to your compilers and perhaps best of all it had multiple clipboards - a feature I've never seen since (I haven't actually looked though!

)

**HarryW** · Sep 28th, 2001, 04:29 AM

Don't know if it's the same program, but I have a Windows app called Multi Edit that does just the same. Version 8 I think it is.

**Jim Brown** · Sep 28th, 2001, 05:11 AM

And now, from the makers of edlin . . . . [fanfare].... Windows 2000!

But really guys, vi HAS to be the worst. Mind you, I think that about Unix as a whole. Yacc? Grep? Sed? C'mon!

**Bonker Gudd** · Sep 28th, 2001, 05:14 AM

Yeah, slag off Unix why don't you?

UNIX works!

How often do you have to reboot a UNIX server, compared with a Windows one?

And vi is still king

chenko · Sep 28th, 2001, 05:15 AM

Originally posted by Wynd
The king of editors is Notepad of course

Notepad rules

Click here Click Here(NT)

what is vi BTW?

**Paul Warren** · Sep 28th, 2001, 05:39 AM

Notepad doesn't count. It's too advanced to count in this argument. vi is the original crappy editor designed by pot heads in the 60's who must have been on something at the time.

**plenderj** · Sep 28th, 2001, 05:58 AM

I've used vi a couple of times and to be honest I just didnt like it.
I couldnt figure out what the hell I was doing, and most of the time ended up wrecking my text files

Add to that the fact that I was telnetting in across the atlantic to the server, so everything was delayed and bah!

I'm sure its good when you know how to use it

**Paul Warren** · Sep 28th, 2001, 06:11 AM

no it's not

**plenderj** · Sep 28th, 2001, 06:12 AM

Well I liked dos. I preferred doing file copying etc. through dos that Win3.x and Win95

**Bonker Gudd** · Sep 28th, 2001, 06:13 AM

Oh yes it is.

**Jim Brown** · Sep 28th, 2001, 06:21 AM

Well I preferred CP/M to Dos! When I got to Dos, copying was backwards to what I'd been using with good ol' PIP.

**tumblingdown** · Sep 28th, 2001, 06:22 AM

Originally posted by Paul Warren
Notepad doesn't count. It's too advanced to count in this argument. vi is the original crappy editor designed by pot heads in the 60's who must have been on something at the time.

Well yes, pot, i presume.

td.

**tumblingdown** · Sep 28th, 2001, 06:24 AM

Oh, and...

Suck my hairy editor ;-)

td.

(td is still pished)

**plenderj** · Sep 28th, 2001, 06:25 AM

Originally posted by tumblingdown

Well yes, pot, i presume.

td.

lol

**peet** · Sep 28th, 2001, 06:45 AM

Originally posted by Bonker Gudd
*reaches for valium*

Oh god, we now have 3 Filburts on here

*wipes eyes*

Anyway, back to vi...

r - replace current character
k - move left

u'd better remeber to buy more valium Bonker

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