Software request

[Bob Goodwin]

Beartooth wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:03:47 +0930, Tim wrote:
> 	[....]
>   
>>> so how do I get to vimtutor? Launch it from the CLI?
>>>       
>> Go into a terminal, type vi and hit TAB...
>>     
>
> 	OK. I got a little bit of somewhat cryptic info about vi, and 
> page after page about the GPL or the children in Uganda. Then it came to 
> a dead end, afaict -- a screen blank except for a line of some character 
> down the side in blue.
>
> 	^C got me a line saying to type ":quit" to get out of the 
> remaining featureless page.
>
> 	I did, and it did -- i.e., gave me my prompt back.
>
> 	This is interaction?? Or there's something there that you have to 
> already know vi to see??
>
> 	PS: I tried it again, to see what the blue margin was. This time 
> it asked me if I wanted to see all 205 possibilities. I told it no.
>
> 	That's qith a space between "vi" and the tab. Without the space, 
> it does nothing, afaict. Does that mean "You had your chance; now to hell 
> with you"?
>
>   
Open a terminal and type vimtutor and press enter.

Bob