From: buboo@alf.uib.no (Ove Ruben R Olsen)
Subject: Re: VI??? GROSS!
Organization: University of Bergen, Norway
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 09:58:12 GMT

Soh Kam Hung writes:

>Vi is simple to learn, but there aren't many good tutorials or teachers
>for it.  New users --- usually those with a personal computer
>background --- expect to have immediate feedback when they use a text
>editor.  For example, they expect be able move the cursor using the
>``arrow'' keys, and have the characters they type echoed on terminal.
>Once they understand the three major modes in vi, and a bit of history
>regarding vi, things make much more sense.

Beware the ignorance of the Lambs :-)
Many of these tutorials are EXSTREMLY good. Do not make asumptions 
about something that you may or may not know 100 %.

Those with a PC background should use JOE, pico or something else
untill they hit the ceiling and ask: "Why can't I...", then you show
them the strength of VI.

VI phiolosphy: Learn to move efficently, then you have learned to
	       change, delete and execute efficently.


From one of the INDEX files at the VI/EX archives around the world:

ex.reference.Z      EX Reference Manual. UCB-dist. A Must.
lvi.tar.Z           The Learners Introduction to VI. Interactive. Bo Thide.
nvi.tar.Z           Novice VI. Bo Thide.
vi.apwh.ms.Z        VI Command & Function Reference. UCB-dist.
vi.beginers.Z       VI beginers guide.
vi.chars.Z          Apendix: character functions. UCB-dist. A Must.
vi.course.Z         A course on using VI. Paper.
vi.course.tar.Z     A course package on using VI. Paper.
vi.help.Z           VI recerence card. Found inside learn-vi.tar.Z
vi.innforing.Z      A NORWEGIAN introduction to VI. Version 1.3-160.
vi.intro.Z          Introduction on Display Editing with VI. UCB-dist. A Must.
vi.keys.Z           What key's to map in VI. Table. Followed by a CED. 
vi.macroDoc.tar.Z   Two docs describing macros in VI. Sample exrc file incl.
vi.macros.Z         Macros, Abbrevitations, and Buffers.
vi.man.tut.Z        VI manual-page with a tutor.
vi.multfile.Z       A doc on how to work with multiple files in VI.
vi.online-200.tar   VI ON-LINE HELP with 'windows for vi'. Version 2.00
vi.quick.Z          VI Quick reference card.
vi.ref.Z            UNIX VI quick reference card.
vi.refchrt.Z        VI reference chart.
vi.reference.Z      VI reference. Version 8.  Maarten Litmaath. A Must. 
vi.ss.qrf.Z         Super Short quick reference card. Fits on a 80x24 screen.
vi.summary.Z        VI / EX Quick reference. UCB-dist.
vi.tips.Z           Beginer's tips on VI.
vi.tutor.Z          The tutor-file from vi.tutor.tar.Z (tutor.vi). 
vi.tutor.tar.Z      An interactive tutor for VI. (Ver: 1.3) Beginers choice.
vi.tutor.tex.Z      A exelent documet to use with vi.tutor.Z. Beginers choise.

SO, do you need any more tutorials ? Nay, I doubt it.

The VI/EX archives can be found at:

Europe:
   Main site:     alf.uib.no (129.177.30.3)
   Filearea:      pub/lpf/misc
   Peak hours:    07.00 am GMT to 03.00 pm GMT 

Japan:
   Mirror site:   utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (133.11.11.11) 
   Filearea:      misc/vi-archive
   Peak hours:    01.00 am GMT to 09.00 am GMT

USA, Canada and Mexico: 
   Mirror site:   cs.uwp.edu (131.210.1.4)
   Filearea:      /pub/vi
   Peak hours:    None.            

Australia, NZ and the rest Down Under:
   Main site:     monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (130.194.1.106)
   Filearea:      /pub/Vi
   Peak hours:    Not relevent


For more information about the files at the archives and the archives 
itself, please read one of the FAQ for Comp.Editors.
If you are in a hurry you may fetch the INDEX file.

If you need more information, you are welcome to mail Ruben@uib.no.

\Ruben.




-- 
        Ove Ruben R Olsen a Gnarfer and VI user. EMAIL: ruben@uib.no. 
     Maintaining the EX/VI-archive and a couple of the Comp.Editors FAQs.
    People that are ignorant tend to live a frustrated life, at least when 
     it comes to editing - But I do belive this is a general rule in life