Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Beginner's Guide to the Vi editor

I guess that I'm focusing things that aid the average beginning Linux user because I am one.

So, theme for July/August is tutorials/articles that should be of interest to newbies such as myself.
Hope my reader(s) enjoy.

Beginner's Guide to the Vi Editor is a quick-start basics guide to the vi editor made by the lovely folks at UCSD. A great basics tutorial for those who still aren't quite sure exactly what sudo is, and a great tutorial for the linux users that have never really messed with vi that much either.

That's a great jumpstart, but for those like myself who have to read multiple tutorials to get a true grasp of something, I've compiled a list of various tutorals on the vi text editor.

Linux Online, in addition to its many other tutorials, provides a good introductory lesson to vi and its commands.

The University of Oregon provides this tutorial that, though less extensive than Linux Online's, is a pretty good overview.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

hey buddy, no offense but I think emacs is better. Don't get me wrong I'm NOT going to say that you must switch to emacs, but try emacs and you will see the difference.

IMHO vi is good for editing small files like the fstab and xorg.conf or sources.list for apt, where you only need to do a few stuff. But when it comes to coding emacs is a LOT better.

btw, I use vi to edit small things in files. And vi is better than many other editors, it just can't beat emacs :)

cheers
tuxv

Anonymous said...

As a computer scientist and a programmer for 7 years I would beg to differ, Vi and even better ViM, are great editors.

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