[geeks] Lindows

Brian bri at sonicboom.org
Mon Feb 24 15:23:12 CST 2003


oh if she could do all the ctrl-shift wp stuffs, shell be fine.


	Brian

The path to a desireable destination
is often more difficult than the path to stay where you are.

On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, James wrote:

> At 02:36 AM 2/24/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> >I love vi but i wouldn't want to be the one who had to help
> >someone migrate from Notepad to vi(m).  Get her the O'Reilly
> >(Tarsier) book.
> >
> >Good Luck :)
>
> I got my wife to use edlin once and she figured it out (remotely
> resurrecting a dead PC). A modal word processor should be a blessing
> compared to that. Actually vi is not complicated once you get past the idea
> of modes. Its kinda like CatOS (and VMS), there are only three commands -
> set, show and clear. In vi there is / and : and the "letter" commands like
> x and dd. OK, I am guilty of over-simplification, but anyone with brains
> should grasp vi if its presented well. Somewhere I have a 2 page PDF
> cheat-sheet that lists all the vi functions one will need for most editing.
>
> Besides, she "grew up" with DOS based Word Perfect, nuff said.
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