A little side track

After deciding that I was going to set up my server, I got to looking into it and decided it needed to wait a little. I want to have my server headless, so I need to telnet in to make changes once it's set up. To do this, I'm going to need to use vi to do the editting. So I'm now on a quest to learn vi.

I've used it a little at work, but that's been years. It's not all that difficult, but it's not easy either. So I started reading in my Practical Linux book about vi. I did a little practicing, then found I need to know some commands. A cheat sheet would work well here. So off to Google.

I first came across a bunch of lame pages. These basically had all the same stuff. They were just lists of commands. No formatting to them. Or it they were formatted, they didn't print properly. The best of this type can be found here. This is an individual's page, so it could disappear at any time. He did a pretty good job on this, but it just doesn't print well for me. He also has a bunch of other vi related stuff.

Then I found the K Computing vi cheatsheet. Now this is much better. They used PDF format, so it's savable and printable. It's still not quite what I'm looking for, so I kept looking.

This time I decided to add PDF to my search and came up with this cheatsheet. This is just about perfect. It has the most used commands, and it's formatted great. Definately worth saving. This will come in very useful.

If you decide you need a little more explaination of the commands, there's this page. It does not have a cheat sheet, but it teaches you how to make your own. I printed this one off to try to learn something myself. I'll use the printed cheatsheet, but this will help me in the future.

So that's my little trip off my defined track. I'll get this server set up, but it's going to take a little longer. After all, I want to learn linux, not just get a server up and running. It's going to take me a bit longer to get things going, but it will be worth it in the end.

I have seen that my Practical Linux book is not as advanced as I'd like it to be. I'll be switching to Rute soon. That realy has the commands.