Learning vi - was Re: [Gllug] Linux Roadshow

[Stig Brautaset]

* William Palfreman <william at palfreman.com> spake thus:
>> In my experience, the GUI tools can be handy (eg. setting up a dialup
>> connection with kppp is easier than ppp and chat) 
> 
> Nah.  pppd /dev/ttyS0 115200 user billp connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v ''
> AT OK ATM0 OK ATD020812345678 CONNECT '\d\c'"
> 
> What could be easier?  Before I knew how to shell-script or use
> rc.local that used to be in the bash history of my firewall's root
> account, along with what ipchains rule to use post-boot.

That is easy if you know what pppd does/is, know what an AT command
does/is and so on. I can think of many things that are easier to do on
the commandline, but putting together a connect-script for ppp isn't one
of them. (Maybe I am just spoilt with debian's pppconfig utility...)

>> Incidently, I love vi as much as the next geek, but it's a bit
>> daunting for newbies - the whole mode thing confuses nearly everyone!

"vimtutor" is a nice app. It comes bundled with vim.

Regards,
Stig

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