[TUHS] Re: diving into vi (nvi) - some observations from a slow learner

Hi Will, Something I used to do was to look at each key on the keyboard and think what it would do, e.g. d, D, and ^D. Most do at least one thing. You're missing these handy six: f F t T ; , There's also keeping the cursor on the same line but moving the window over the text: z ^E ^Y Understand the format of the tags file first; built by ctags(1). ^] on a word looks it up and goes there. Where you were is pushed on to the ‘tagstack’. When you wish to exit that rabbit hole, ^T pops the top of the stack and goes there which returns you to where you pressed ^]. $ func='foo bar xyzzy' $ printf "%s: $func"'\n' $func >src $ cat src foo: foo bar xyzzy bar: foo bar xyzzy xyzzy: foo bar xyzzy $ grep -n '[^:]*' src | awk -F: '{print $2 "\tsrc\t" $1}' >tags $ sed -n l tags foo\tsrc\t1$ bar\tsrc\t2$ xyzzy\tsrc\t3$ $ vi src, move to a word, ^] and it will move you to the ‘definition’ line. Imagine each line is a function definition with calls to other functions. You're wandering down and up a ‘call tree’, following possible execution paths. -- Cheers, Ralph.