[Novalug] Tutorials

Joel Fouse joel@fouse.net
Thu Dec 14 21:13:53 EST 2006


On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 20:36 -0500, Matt Good wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 20:21 -0500, gregory pryzby wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 07:26:27PM -0500, Pete Nuwayser wrote:
> > > On 12/14/06, gregory pryzby <greg@pryzby.org> wrote:
> > > >Been there and it worked some through your Python effort and Jay's
> > > >'hands on'.
> > > >
> > > >That said, I would support it.
> > > 
> > > How about a session called, "How pryzby navigates the command line and
> > > vi" ?  Can't remember seeing anyone sail through bash as quickly.  I'd
> > > love to learn all those shortcuts.
> > 
> > LOL.... I was with someone on Monday and trying to recall the
> > keystrokes. I had to put my hands on the keyboard and watch what my
> > fingers did ;)
> 
> I am the same way with passwords, I remember the motions to type them,
> but can forget what I'm actually typing.
> 
> > 1988 -> 2006 means lots of 'hard coded' actions w/ little thought...
> > And that is my secret-- little thought ;)
> 
> It's also worth noting that if Vi users want to use Vi shortcuts to
> navigate the command line they can add this to ~/.inputrc:
> 
> set editing-mode vi
> set keymap vi
> 
> This works on all programs that use the readline library, so it'll work
> for other apps like the MySQL, Python or Ruby shells.

Ooo...gonna have to go play now... :)

- Joel





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