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vilearn

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yandros@MIT.EDU)
Fri Jan 29 20:35:03 1993

From: yandros@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 93 20:34:51 EST
To: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
Reply-To: yandros@ATHENA.MIT.EDU


So, I decide I might be willing to give in and learn how to use vi,
and I get:

   deathtongue:~
   :->vilearn
   The following tutorials are available:
   
           Tutorial 1 -- Basic Editing
           Tutorial 2 -- Moving Efficiently
           Tutorial 3 -- Cutting and Pasting
           Tutorial 4 -- Inserting Techniques
           Tutorial 5 -- Tricks and Timesavers
   
   You will be editing your own copy of the tutorial. Enter the number
   of the tutorial you'd like to see (or q to quit): 1
   Copying tutorial...
   xterm: Unknown terminal type
   I don't know what kind of terminal you are on - all I have is 'xterm'.
   [Using open mode]
   "1basics" 196 lines, 5941 characters
   
   vi tutorial #1: The Basics


And it sits with the cursor on the last `v' doing nothing.  Somehow it
doesn't seem, to me anyway, that `xterm' is *that* strange a terminal
type...



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