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- Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny.reruns
- Approved: rhf-reruns@clari.net
- From: alopeziz@maytag.waterloo.edu (Alex Lopez-Ortiz)
- Subject: VI manual pages
- Keywords: chuckle, computer, original, originally appeared in first quarter, 1991
- Organization: University of Waterloo
- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 97 19:20:04 EDT
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- A few days ago, we were trying to explain to a MS-DOS user how the VI
- editor works. Here's what we come up with:
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- Vi is an editor with two distinguished modes:
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- In _Edit mode_ you have all the capabilities of grandma's typewriter
- right under your finger tips! You can make the very same mistakes as
- you did with granny's typewriter (and your possibilities to correct
- them are about the same).
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- That's why Vi was provided with a second mode, namely the _Beep_ mode.
- On a vt100 terminal or compatible you can get into Beep mode by
- pressing an arrow or escape function key. In this powerful Beep mode
- even the more innocuous keystroke will promptly produce a Beep sound.
- As an example, arrows, return, blank spaces and most capital letters
- will produce beeps in the most arbitrary places of the screen. Just
- think about the whole world of possibilities that this mode gives to
- you:
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- --Compose a monotonic symphony or rap while editing your thesis!
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- --Send messages in Morse code to the secretary next door!
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- --Keep yourself awake with the clear sound of the Beep tone!
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- The variations are endless.
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- From the RHF archives as selected by Brad Templeton, Maddi Hausmann and
- Jim Griffith. This newsgroup posts former jokes from the newsgroup
- rec.humor.funny.
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- Web users, you can read a random joke from the archives just by bookmarking
- http://comedy.clari.net/cgi-bin/randomurl/rhf/jokes/masterlist
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