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Yep, vim is what I actually use, but it's called with vi and I call it vi. Nearly 30 years of habit is hard to break!
There are several ways, including what EM mentioned, but I'm too lazy for that many keystrokes, so I always use one, x, to save and exit.
Proud, primitive vi user here! :laugh:
Heresy.
We could substitute DOS's edlin for ed. :idea: When it comes to primitive, that would be a good start! :laugh:
My guess is that it's still there purely for historical integrity and, perhaps, backward compatibility. There may still be scripts hanging around that call it...although you have to wonder about a system that hasn't been touched in THAT long.
No kidding.To quote the Wiki...
Famous for its terseness, ed gives almost no visual feedback. For example, the message that ed will produce in case of error, or when it wants to make sure the user wishes to quit without saving, is "?". It does not report the current filename or line number, or even display the results of a change to the text, unless requested. This terseness was appropriate in the early versions of Unix, when consoles were teletypes, modems were slow, and memory was precious.
awesome stuff...
That's the thing--it's really powerful. Oh, it definitely can seem daunting (and cryptic and any number of other things) and like the learning curve is ridiculous, but if you start with a few basics and get them down pat, and then add bit by bit to your repertoire, before you know it you're using vi like an old hand.I started to really get into vi/vim a few months back, ran through the vim-tutor a few times and was getting the hang of it... then I stopped using it and forgot half of it.
But, for a moment, I could do some kinda cool things easily.
Using Slackware was my intro to Vi also. It was one of the few distros that I tried at the time that didn't come with nano by default. That's where I left it also.
Yeah, I really want to get back into it. I think I actually posted the coolest thing I learned in this thread a few months ago... it was using a macro to increment a number or alpha character. But it was weird, I had a success rate of about 80% with it.
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