[H-GEN] Simple Linux editors
Scott Pullen
spullen at optusnet.com.au
Fri Apr 12 04:55:37 EDT 2002
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Sorry to keep this thread going but I was interested in the comment that
even if you use the editor for years you still learn something. The
reason is I asked a number of my colleagues at work it they knew how to
navigate through a number of files in vi, well specifically how to move
backwards or cycle through the files and nobody knew of a way to do it.
I know that you can move forward through the files by using the :n
command. Is there anyway to move backwards through the files ... or
move through the whole cycle setting some environment variable? I know
I can use the 26 buffers to store data and then try and remember where I
put everything to cut into a final document but is there the ability I
have talked about?
Cheers,
Scott.
robert stanford wrote:
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>On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 00:28, Greg Black wrote:
>
>>I still think ed is the answer here. I could teach anybody who
>>wanted to learn ed enough to perform the tasks I enumerated in
>>an earlier message in about half an hour.
>>
>
>Any chance of doing that 1/2 hour at the next humbug?
>
>Live demos are much more fun than man pages
>
>Robert
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