i don't really like it, because it doesn't actually help you use vim to your advantage...the main thing it does it teach you how to use hjkl which you can't do in insert mode anyways. I've recently been using vim exclusively because nano doesn't really have a whole lot of navigation options, i think the trick with vim is overall is learning how to hack it to your advantage. For example, you can use some of sed's best features from inside the program:
:51,60dYeah, that's the main point of level 1. If you go beyond that, it's a really thorough introduction to the rest of vim. It doesn't get in to splitting the screen, plugins, or customizing vim with colors or remapping keys, but it does get you pretty competent pretty quickly. Later levels absolutely do get in to deletion, insertion, buffers, search...all kinds of stuff.
Writing your own paycheck...hmmm!
~root, in case I needed to clear up the ".bash_history" for the "root" user.
I've never cared about that file but last week a weird problem appeared - something (unclear what) kept changing the permissions of bash history and every time I used the terminal, it would create ~/.bash_history-[number].tmp. These tmp files weren't temporary as their extension suggests. Normally a tmp file should disappear when you close the program that created it but these files didn't disappear and I had to delete them manually. So I put it to a test - changed the permissions back to normal, drove 2500 miles on ETS2 for a few hours and when I closed the game, bash history's permissions were changed again. The game has nothing to do with bash, so I seriously doubt that the game did the change. So I did the only remaining thing I could think of - changed the permissions back to normal and then made the file immutable. After I made it immutable, the terminal no longer saves history of commands (not that I care, anyway) but also the tmp files stopped appearing.
Those .bash_history-##.tmp files which appeared in the dotfiles of the home directory did eventually stop propagating after upgrading. I can't recall how many upgrades it took for the proliferating to stop, but it did eventually.I've never cared about that file but last week a weird problem appeared - something (unclear what) kept changing the permissions of bash history and every time I used the terminal, it would create ~/.bash_history-[number].tmp. These tmp files weren't temporary as their extension suggests. Normally a tmp file should disappear when you close the program that created it but these files didn't disappear and I had to delete them manually. So I put it to a test - changed the permissions back to normal, drove 2500 miles on ETS2 for a few hours and when I closed the game, bash history's permissions were changed again. The game has nothing to do with bash, so I seriously doubt that the game did the change. So I did the only remaining thing I could think of - changed the permissions back to normal and then made the file immutable. After I made it immutable, the terminal no longer saves history of commands (not that I care, anyway) but also the tmp files stopped appearing.
Once again my linux learning resource was... linux.
This is pretty much how I did it in 1994. Install it and go. In 2020, I stumbled upon a Linux video creator who used Arch Linux exclusively and he did a whole tutorial on how to install it. I now use Arch as my distro with the Awesome WM on my main machine. I love it!The best way to learn Linux is by using Linux.
Practice makes the master.
Don't be afraid to break your Linux distro and learn from your mistakes.
Scan the forums which are a wealth of information.
An excellent resource.
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