[ale] vi foo

[Jeff Lightner]

Just tried it in HP-UX vi.  Only goes to end of line there as well.   On
the plus side there is vim available for HP-UX (loaded it for something
the DBAs were doing and used to use nvi for).  It can be compiled for
the other OSes as well.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
To: ale at ale.org
Michael B. Trausch
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 8:32 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] vi foo

Jim Popovitch wrote:
> 
> Here's the answer... sent via private email so I'll respect the
author's
> desire to remain secluded for now.
> 
> Anyway, in vi all you have to do is open the file and type the number
of
> characters you want to advance, then press the space bar.  For
example,
> vi /etc/hosts, then type "101" followed by the SPACE bar.  You should
> now be at the 101st character in the file.
> 

Works in vim -- but beware, because it doesn't seem to work on any of
the "classic" versions of vi that I tried (FreeBSD and SunOS's vi only
goes to the end of the line).

	-- Mike

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