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Re:Learning vi -- the "cheatsheet" technique by Dobbs on Saturday January 31, 2009 @02:34PM (#459951)
Many Unix systems (generally the traditionalists) will include vi (as in the standard non-vim vi). Vim is then an added package that can be installed if you wish. There are also several other vi based/cloned like nvi which some Unix systems include. Vim I guess won in that its whats used for the day to day of text editing.

Vim did not win in that its a large package and users are often forced to use a lighter wieght vi clone to admin directly a on server machine.

ps. how do you write a * followed by text?

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Re:Learning vi -- the "cheatsheet" technique by silentbicycle on Saturday January 31, 2009 @09:38PM (#460408)
If you add a space after the * it will be fine.

Text surrounded by stars will become italic, though.

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