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About these images:

VI hints

Used extensively throughout the 1990s in teaching students to use vi, along with the vilearn(1) program. The image shows a cursor on the second text line of three, with various indicators showing what commands to type in relation to the cursor position. Students found the movement keys subimage, in which the j descender hints at down, and the k ascender hints at up, particularly helpful when just starting. The C, s, and r commands are shown exclusively iconically. Mnemonics are not included in this image as they were covered in lecture.

Emacs hints

Similar in style to the preceding, the Emacs Hints image focusses on a cursor on the second line of three, with many basic cursor movement commands shown in relation to that frame of reference. This image also includes basic buffer and window splitting commands. The transposition and C-x h keys could likely be converted to more iconic representations. Mnemonics are not included in this image as they were covered in lecture.

Vim graphical cheat sheet

This image is appropriate for Vi users past the just-starting stage, with a particular nicety of distinctive coloring for command accepting motion suffixes.

Icon Name (6)         Bytes (314853) Last Change, CDT  Document Title

   Parent Dir                4096  2012-05-21 12:54
   emacs-hints-small.png    31095  2012-04-05 03:07
   emacs-hints.png          44659  2012-04-05 03:05
   vi-hints-small.png       18985  2003-08-28 14:52
   vi-hints.png             40797  2003-08-28 14:47
   vi-keyboard-map.gif     156322  2007-07-03 15:06