vi was Re: [NCLUG] linuxconf gone?

[Evelyn Mitchell]

* On 2002-03-20 19:29 Mike Loseke <mike at verinet.com> wrote:
> Thus spake Evelyn Mitchell:
> > 
> > * On 2002-03-20 19:12 Aaron D. Johnson <adj at ccltd.com> wrote:
> > > In message <15512.56239.73011.308868 at harrier.ftc.agilent.com>, Daniel Herrington writes
> > > > I'm trying to debug some network stuff, and the only utility I can
> > > > find on my RedHat 7.2 box for network configuration is
> > > > /usr/sbin/netconfig, which doesn't have very many options available.
> > > > I don't seem to have netconf or linuxconf or control-panel.  Is
> > > > there a better tool for setting DNS servers, gateways, etc. now?
> > > 
> > > vi.
> > 
> > That's what I use.
> > 
> > What do you think of outline folding in the new vi?
> 
>  What is it and how will it improve my computing "experience?" :P

You can setup outline levels in the latest vim. So, if you're working
on python, for example, you can have it show/hide according to indentation
levels. Or if you're working in text, you can have it show/hide according
to your bullet/number style.

It's quite cool.

I suspect you could even have it fold levels of replies in emails.

There's a whole bunch of new neat features in vim 6.0:
http://www.vim.org/announce/vim-6.0

             Our Editor, who art in RAM,
               :written be thy name.
             Thy install come,
               Thy buffers be done in Windows,
               As they are on Unix.
             Give us this day our daily files,
               And forgive us using pico,
               As we forgive those who use WORD against us.
             And lead us not into EMACS,
               But deliver us from vile.
             For thine is the improvement,
               the mapping and the usability.
             For this version and next,
             ZZ

(that's from the vim.org page...)

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