VI

[William Park]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:28:55AM +0000, Pilgrim wrote:
> Can someone tell me what "vi" is for a text editor to work with python?

My goodness, how do we answer this.  'vi' is visual screen editor which
superseded a line editor called 'ed'.  There are many flavours, but
'vim' is the best.

The main distinquishing features for beginners are that 'vi' has many
command modes, so that keys do different things depending on which mode
you are in.  In "insert" mode, you type as normally; in "command" mode,
you move about using normal ASCII keystrokes; so on.  ESC/Ctrl keys are
used only in special cases.

In comparison, other editors are always in "insert" mode, so that you
have to press ESC- or Ctrl- key sequences for editing commands since
normal ASCII keys simply go into the file.

> Where can I get this?

<www.vim.org>

-- 
William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>
8 CPUs cluster, (Slackware) Linux, Python, LaTeX, Vim, Mutt, Sc.