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

[Nic James Ferrier]

linux at oneandoneis2.org writes:

> You could well be right (I remember my early *nix days, I had to kill  
> the terminal to get out of vi) but I came to prefer vi because it's  
> more consistent with other applications: if you're comfortable with  
> command-line tools, you'll probably find vi very familiar (and vice  
> versa)
>
> If you know how to search for text in "less", or how to do a "find &  
> replace" with "sed", then you know how to do the same in vi. You don't  
> have to learn different methods for the different applications.

The default bash readline line is emacs keys.

I've never used readline vi mode... the whole modal thing is what
annoys me about vi. Why would anyone want to use that from the command
line?

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Nic Ferrier
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