speakup and VI

Gregory Nowak romualt at megsinet.net
Wed Sep 12 13:39:56 EDT 2001


Vi is a straight-forward quick and dirty type of editor.
Yes, reading the man page does help.
Vi is also discussed in a few unix books,
as it is a popular editor.
Greg


On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 10:35:10PM -0400, Ryan Mann wrote:
> Out of curiosity, what do you like about Vi?  I tried to use it a cupple
> times, but I couldn't even figure out how to exit the dam thing!  Although
> I hadn't read the man page or anything.
> 
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Deedra Waters wrote:
> 
> >      I've found an editor that I like. It appears to be complicated but I
> > learn fast and am picking up the basics rather quickly.I've got a question
> > though and maybe someone can help me with this
> >
> >      I can use the speakup arrows to move threw text in my files easilly
> > enough, but when I try to use the arrow keys to move to certain points in
> > the file I cant, or rather it doesn't talk when I use them. Not sure if
> > maybe I'm doing something wrong, or don't understand something.
> > deedra
> >
> >
> >
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