[ILUG] text editor for absolute beginners

[Gavin McCullagh]

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Niall O Broin wrote:

> Easy vi is an oxymoron , surely.  I know how to use vi, to a limited
> extent, and its three modes bug the hell out of me. How are you going to
> explain that to a beginner ?

Well, vimtutor helps a lot.  To be fair, vim is a lot easier and immensely
more powerful than vi.

> In fairness, I suppose everyone who uses vi was a beginner once - speaks 
> volumes for the human spirit, that does.

I think the same could reasonably be said of the Unix CLI.

Gavin