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Originally posted by The Wikir Man View PostIt's different ways to save and quit in vi.
global / regular expression / print looks jolly useful too - its hardly untuitive that this is what 'grep' stands for though....
The sub-culture of brevity in the Unix community is going to slow the learning process down a little methinks.
Saves typing at the command line, but don't these minimalist abbreviations make Unix scripts a bit hard for non-Unix bods to read?Comment
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Originally posted by xux42 View Postvi being - the command 'visual' that switches the 'extended' line editor to visual mode
global / regular expression / print looks jolly useful too - its hardly untuitive that this is what 'grep' stands for though....
The sub-culture of brevity in the Unix community is going to slow the learning process down a little methinks.
Saves typing at the command line, but don't these minimalist abbreviations make Unix scripts a bit hard for non-Unix bods to read?Originally posted by Churchill View PostYou've blagged it, haven't you?Comment
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Originally posted by xux42 View Postdon't these minimalist abbreviations make Unix scripts the elite domain of the select few ?Comment
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Originally posted by xux42 View Postvi being - the command 'visual' that switches the 'extended' line editor to visual mode
global / regular expression / print looks jolly useful too
vimcasts.orgLast edited by Sysman; 16 April 2010, 13:19.Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.Comment
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Originally posted by Drewster View PostYou really have blagged this - Haven't you?
This is not a Unix contract. Unix is the source system - just need to know enough to get the apps off & decomm. the unix platform from what I have been told so far.Comment
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Originally posted by xux42 View Postvi being - the command 'visual' that switches the 'extended' line editor to visual mode
global / regular expression / print looks jolly useful too - its hardly untuitive that this is what 'grep' stands for though....
The sub-culture of brevity in the Unix community is going to slow the learning process down a little methinks.
Saves typing at the command line, but don't these minimalist abbreviations make Unix scripts a bit hard for non-Unix bods to read?
I sued to hate vi, but now I embrace it, it works exactly the same on Solaris, AIX, HP-UX and Irix, tho linux seems to add odd bits to it to 'help'....Comment
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