[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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