VLUG Meeting Notes 2002.08.13

TOPIC: Vi Text Editor.

Presenter: Carl Constantine
http://www.duckwing.ca

NEWS

• GKernal 2.4.19 released.
• Open Office 1.01.
• Blender fund raising project is going well.
• SourceForge is now an IBM backed project.
• Sun Linux 5 is on offer.
• Mentioned LOLL- Loads of Linux Links. Currently hosted on Source Forge. New link submissions are invited.
• VLUG T-shirts are availabie at half price for $10.00.
• Book Raffle was held for 'Vi Improved' by New Riders, won by VLUG member Ken Murray.
• Ken's Book Report will be ready *Real Soon Now!* ( we shall count the days ;-)
• Also raffled was ' Mastering Red Hat Linux 7.1' by Sybex.

Monthly General Meeting:
Vi Text Editor

PRESENTATION:

Vi was one of the first editors and is widely distributed. Primarily a command line text editor.

• Used commonly for program editing.
• Also GUI version as Vim, for Vi Improved. Currently ver. 6.1.
• Also available as VIM for Windows.
• Offers ability to setup Vim configuration file to customize its look & feel.
• Macros & key commands provide even more speed & flexability.
• Horizontal screen splitting allows you to work on multiple files at once
• Locking files function allows only 1 person at a time to edit any given file.
• VIM also allows directory browsing to see and open files.

Discussion and Q&A took up the rest of the meeting.
Rocky where were you? We missed seeing VLUG mascot Tux the Penguin ;-)

RESOURCES:

http://www.vim.org

Meeting Adjourned  to Boston Pizza for that and libations.

Next Meeting:

Where: University of Victoria, Cornet Rm. B - 143.
When: Sept. 10 /02.
Topic: Battle of the Editors: EMACS with Daniel M. German, Ph.D.

Notes from Mark McLaughlin - VLUG Secretary.
secretary@vlug.org