[Sussex] A beginner's guide to GNU/Linux

Andy Smith andy at lug.org.uk
Sat Dec 2 04:43:32 UTC 2006


On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 10:27:17PM +0000, Nic James Ferrier wrote:
> I use vi in similar circumstances... a quick edit of the shadow file
> on a remote system.
> 
> But if I want to do an involved edit, cut out a rectangle and move it
> about, sophistcated search and replace, something even more exotic

But vim does all those things also.

Cheers,
Andy
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