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From: clouds@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Kathy Strong)
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Subject: Re: minimum vi command set, was: Wanted: Easy, Full-screen Editor
Summary: Looked good to me
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Date: 21 Oct 90 17:36:15 GMT
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In article <58374@microsoft.UUCP> nancym@microsoft.UUCP (Nancy McGough) writes:
> [stuff deleted]
>
>Here's what I'd recommend for a minimal set:
>
> [list deleted]

Nancy hits it on the nose. As an net.newcomer.vi.idiot, she's listed exactly the
commands I know (except she left out dd in the VERY basic set).

>For a little more power (in no particular order):
>
> [another list deleted]

These commands were all in my "handy dandy pocket guide to vi*" (the one that
should have been subtitled ("*if you can read this, you're too damn close")...
but Nancy's explanations were much less cryptic..

>I think I got carried away here . . .!
>
>nancy

Judging from the postings I've been reading here, many may agree--but for my
money, you can get carried away like that any time you like.

--Kathy, vi.moron



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