Using VI, and red hat networking
Too entirely unrelated topics
I am going through a UNIX course, and to get practice on Unix we have to use VI( a console, keyboard only, 80*25 character text editor )
funny thing, I actually like it, more than notepad, I opened up notepad today and started hitting escape(to go into command mode), got angry booted into red hat and started working in VI there.
Ok now onto networking, Has anyone gotten linux to work with @home, I would use linux exclusively(except for games and VC++, and Java) if I had Internet access...
I attempted to set up networking and couldnt, any help?
Re: Using VI, and red hat networking
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Originally posted by Koshare
funny thing, I actually like it, more than notepad, I opened up notepad today and started hitting escape(to go into command mode), got angry booted into red hat and started working in VI there.
There's something called Lemmy that's essentially VI for windows. I like the real Vi(m) better, though, because backspaces while editing don't move the cursor back, they delete the last typed character.
Even though most people don't seem to like it(or at least don't like both vi and emacs at the same time), you might try using emacs or emacs-nox. Emacs works totally different, but has essentially the same editing power. Emacs works better on english text, source code, and other "from scratch" files, or files whose format is widespread and/or that uses delimiters like parentheses, braces, brackets, and angle brackets, whereas vi works best on cryptic things like traditional configuration files(as opposed to XML config files), makefiles, autogenerated shell scripts, etc.
Yeah, going from Notepad to Vi, then back is like testdriving a Ferrari.(more like testpiloting a space shuttle, then going back to your prop biplane)
