presenting Linux to Windows admins

[Peter]

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Alex Beamish wrote:

> I still find myself in vi (vim, actually) staring at a screen that has
> definitely not 'quit' -- so I press 'q' again, confirm that I see
> 'recording' at the bottom, nod to myself, press 'q' again, then a
> colon, and finally 'q' to quit. I assume there's some kind of macro
> feature in vim -- I've never used it.

Easy rhyme: three escapes and you're clear (in browse mode). vi macros 
are well worth learning. They make things easy with repetitive commands.

Peter
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