[CS-FSLUG] Another chapter in my transition to Linux saga

[Ruth Marlene Friesen]

On April 22, 2005 09:16 am, JD Runyan wrote:
> Josiah Ritchie wrote:
> > I rarely ever use 'vim' but it is occasionally of great benefit to know
> > the first 15 min. of the 'vimtutor' directions. The rest is just neat
> > stuff to know. The idea of modes in a text editor threw me for a loop
> > for about a year (back in RedHat 5.2 days). I didn't know about
> > 'vimtutor' at the time. Priceless! I think, for most use, nano is all
> > you need and it has a menu so you don't have to remeber as much.
>
> Not to start an editor flamefest, but I would encourage everyone to
> learn the basics of vi. vi is found on all UN*X platforms. It has been
> the defacto standard editor for the UN*X world. You don't have to like,
> but you should learn it even if you will use something else on a regular
> basis.

I have just tried this vimtutor in Konsole and am rather confused.

First, on opening my Konsole I see this 
bash-2.05b$
instead of of the longer line I've seen before, which lists user name, dir/ 
and so forth. Don't know what I did to get that.

But I typed in  vimtutor and then got this message;

Oh no! now that all disappeared! Had another screen and when I tried to click 
somewhere it disappeared too, and now it is a blank screen. I feel like this 
thing is teasing me.

Oh just a sec! I clicked on the session menu and discovered there are more 
than one type of session screens. I was in a screen session and now back in 
root session. But now when I type vimtutor at the prompt I get this 3-line 
message again which I can't seem to copy.

Oh well, time to go do something else. I'll have to explore some more another 
day.

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