REMINDER: TOMORROW: BALUG Tu 2010-06-15 The vi editor, introduction through advanced usage, presented by Michael Paoli

Also at tomorrow's meeting, CDs: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) Desktop CD PC (Intel x86) i386 Thanks to Grant Bowman and the Ubuntu California Team for getting CDs to us.

Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2010-06-15 The vi editor, introduction through advanced usage, presented by Michael Paoli

Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below).

For our 2010-06-15 BALUG meeting, we're excited to present:

The vi editor, introduction through advanced usage, presented by Michael Paoli

Don't know what vi is? New to vi, or been using vi for years? Whatever familiarity and experience you do or don't have with vi, this presentation promises to include something useful for everyone. It will cover from basic introduction to vi, through many powerful and useful tips and tricks (e.g. handy and powerful editing operations, and leveraging vi to do much more than "just" edit files). Some of the differences and advantages and disadvantages of various vi implementations (historic vi, nvi, vim, etc.) will also be covered.

While vi may be simply and modestly described as "a screen oriented text editor", vi is in fact the standard (and de facto standard) text editor for at least UNIX, Linux, and BSD environments, and it's also been ported to many other environments. But don't underestimate vi just because it's "standard". vi is a quite powerful and capable editor, and greatly outperforms the text editing capabilities of many other editors.

Michael Paoli has been using vi for well over a quarter century, from humble beginnings with introductory documentation and quick reference card in hand, to oft repeated, "Wow, how did you do that?" remarks from co-workers watching some of his vi wranglings. He's also been doing Linux systems administration for over a dozen years, and used UNIX all the way back to his humble vi beginnings.

So, if you'd like to join us please RSVP to:

rsvp@balug.org

**Why RSVP??**

Well, don't worry we won't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help the Four Seas Restaurant plan the meal and they help ensure that we'll be able to eat upstairs in the private banquet room.

Meeting Details...

6:30pm Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 2010-06-15

Four Seas Restaurant http://www.fourseasr.com/ 731 Grant Ave. San Francisco, CA 94108 Easy PARKING: Portsmouth Square Garage at 733 Kearny: http://www.sfpsg.com/

Cost: The meetings are always free, but for dinner, for your gift of $13 cash, we give you a gift of dinner ticket to join us for a yummy family-style Chinese dinner - tax and tip included (your gift also helps in our patronizing the restaurant venue and helping to defray BALUG costs such treating our speakers to dinner).

http://www.balug.org/