[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: where is that vi tutorial

Leroy Tennison leroy_tennison at prodigy.net
Wed Feb 8 04:00:39 CST 2006


Graham Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 09:11:28PM -0600, Charles Cashion wrote:
>   
>> I recently discovered that  vi  possessed a built-in tutorial.
>> The other thing I remember was that it started simple and had
>> multiple pages and was formatted in the same way as an "info"
>> file.
>>     
>
> I believe if you have vim installed you can just type:
>
>  $ vimtutor
>
> HTH
>
>   
Start vi then
:help
scroll down (or hit j) to get about 1.25 to 1.5 screens down to find the 
BASIC section
position your cursor between the vertical bars of |tutor| and press 
Ctrl-].  It porfesses to be a 30 minute tutorial.




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