[ale] vi foo

[Michael B. Trausch]

Jim Popovitch wrote:
> 
> Here's the answer... sent via private email so I'll respect the author's
> desire to remain secluded for now.
> 
> Anyway, in vi all you have to do is open the file and type the number of
> characters you want to advance, then press the space bar.  For example,
> vi /etc/hosts, then type "101" followed by the SPACE bar.  You should
> now be at the 101st character in the file.
> 

Works in vim -- but beware, because it doesn't seem to work on any of
the "classic" versions of vi that I tried (FreeBSD and SunOS's vi only
goes to the end of the line).

	-- Mike

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