Re: [TCLUG:13146] VI quick reference

[Jay Christopherson <jay@maven.mn.org>]

At work, I have 'new to vi' users use vedit.  It helps with the mode
issue in that it shows when the user is insert or over-type mode down
at the bottom of the screen.  

Vedit is just vi with several flags set: 
	(report=1, showmode, novice, nomagic)

I have also made some changes to the .exrc file to speed things along.
Back when I took a Cobol class (yuck) and we had to do a lot of typing
just to do the basic 'hello world' program, I set up abbreviations (ab)
for many of the basic words (like procedure and division).  Someone
was looking over my shoulder and could not understand how I could 
type so fast... ;-)

Vi is not great, but as I say, my fingers know it.  When I am using MS 
Word and need to go up a couple of lines, a bunch of 'k's appear on the
screen before I can reach for my left handed mouse...

			- Jay