UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi,

I'm somewhat new to unix OS
and I'm at course for programmers in my country.
and in the course we learn unix and how to script in unix. of course we just started and we learned only the very basic, but I'm a really computer freak and I looking for a way to make the course easier on all of my course mates.
we are allowed to write scripts and map the programs as we wish as long as we do not "hack" or damage the server or its accounts ( :P )
any way we will only be using VI as an text editor and nothing else, and well I'm sure you all know how primitive it is. I'm looking for configs and mappings that will make my life and my life of my course mates easier a lot easier.
I'm looking for stuff like a config full of mapping for the vi to make it "act" like VS (Visual Studio). by that I mean coloring the text, using normal keys like delete and CTRL+C and CTRL+V...
I know how to map and stuff but my level is only on how to do very basic mapping, if some one can provide me with scripts and configuration that I can download (as a text files, the server is local only we cannot download stuff from the net)
and see for myself, read and learn. and please don't direct me to sites where I can learn stuff... I do that in the course.
configs and scripts will be a learnedly experience too.

Thank you in advance!

You want examples of useful ~/.exrc file entries?

yes very much!
all that I found so far are so helpful but they are all for VIM and not VI (as I said we will be only use VI for scripting in my course so no VIM...)

Well, I like to put a private subdir of /var/tmp as my temp dir. I think if you type :se it tells you all the options and their settings. I recall you can adjust the tab stop, and there is a stupid little auto% thing going on at my latest site when I close ]]) I would like to remove. Read man vi and man ex, as vi is visual ex.

how does that help me? I requested configs/scripts that are already made for the vi...
I know how to change the vi settings and map it, I just don't have the time to do all the advance stuff... that's why I need a public config that does all that stuff for me.

See man cat:

Code:

$ cat -vte .exrc                                      
set autowrite showmatch wrapmargin=0 report=1 directory=/var/tmp/dgp$
map  ^W   :set wrapmargin=8$
map  ^X   {!}sort -b$
map  ^[h  1G$
map  ^[H  1G$
map  ^[F  G$
map  ^[V  ^B$
map  ^[U  ^F$
map  ^[T  ^Yk$
map  ^[S  ^Ej$
map  ^[Q   i$
map  ^[P   x$
map  ^[L   O$
map  ^[M   dd$
map  ^[K   D$
map  ^[J   DjdG$$
map! ^[A  ^[ka$
map! ^[D  ^[ha$
map! ^[C  ^[la$
map! ^[B  ^[ja$
map! ^[L  ^M$
map! ^[Q  ^[$
map! ^[R  ^[$
$

The .exrc file is designed to map what happens when you press a key on the keyboard to what key vi expects.

We need to know what type of terminal (or terminal emulator) you have.
We also need to know some base information about the current configuration and which keys work at the moment:

Code:

echo $TERM
stty -a
cat -v .extrc
sed -n l .exrc

Ps. The keys I find most useful are the four arrow keys, page up/down, and insert.

I assume by ctrl/c ctrl/v you mean M$ Windows copy/paste.