Learning Vi?

[w00t]

Do any of you know of any good how-to's, books, cheat sheets, etc. that will help me learn Vi? I would like to have some basic knowledge of it, but it's really complex and I don't know where to start. Btw, right now I am using pico. Any help would be great .

[sde]

There is a great pocket reference from O'Rielly for $7.95 .. i might work on a VI tutorial for the basics.

[sde]

here ya go .. some of the basics

http://codenewbie.com/forum/showthre...=4240#post4240

[w00t]

Cool. Thanks a lot :rock:

[Ilya020]

Originally posted by sde
here ya go .. some of the basics

http://codenewbie.com/forum/showthre...=4240#post4240

ya! Thanks man!

Ilya

[danielrm26]

Here is something I wrote recently to help myself learn vi/vim. I refuse to write my code on a Windows machine (which I use as my desktop) and then move it to my Gentoo boxen (where I do my Security work), so I wanted to do all my coding via Putty right on my Linux boxes.

I had to decide which to use - Vim or Emacs. I chose Vim and set out to learn it. This tutorial is the collection of most of what I learned and found valuable. Let me know if it helps you...

http://www.dmiessler.com/study/vim

-Daniel

[sde]

hey, welcome to codenewbie! .. feel free to re-create that in our 'submit tutorials' forum. we could always use more tutorials.

hope to see you around =)

[Arker]

There is also a very nice Vim Quick Reference card available here . It is GPL and the tex source is available from that URL also if you would like to modify it in order to suit your particular usage habits.

It is by no means complete, but the author chose probably the most used commands. This card was invaluable to me when I began using Vim and it is still reference once in a while.

Have fun.. Learning Vi is effort well spent in the long run.

~arker

[sa_]

and to add another suggestion:

type "vimtutor" in your shell/.

tis how i learnt it.

[Ilya020]

There is something wrong with my vi in aterm

when I do vi file this is what happens:

foo[NEW FILE]












It doesnt display any tilds(~) or clear the term and go to the top of the window. Vim works...any ideas?

Ilya.

aterm is problematic with vi . And it isn't vi, it's elvis, do ls -al /usr/bin/vi it's a sym link to elvis, I guess Pat likes elvis

Oh, BTW, on some boxen vi is run with another SUID so sometimes you can mishivous things with !!

[Ilya020]

Originally posted by Vlad902
aterm is problematic with vi . And it isn't vi, it's elvis, do ls -al /usr/bin/vi it's a sym link to elvis, I guess Pat likes elvis

Thx Vlad!!! You are th vi expert ...BTW when are you comming over?

Ilya.