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how to enter into vim terminal insertmode in ubuntu core 10

Asked by sreekanthb

how to enter into ubuntu VIM termianl insert mode?

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Warren Hill (warren-hill) said : 		#1

Vim is very powerful but not very intuitive

If you don't need to edit text often I would recommend you use nano instead.

If you want to learn vim there is a tutorial here:
http://www.openvim.com/tutorial.html

and another one here:
http://blog.interlinked.org/tutorials/vim_tutorial.html

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

Dont you press I to go to (i)nsert mode....

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