[ale] vi foo

[jimpop at yahoo.com (Jim Popovitch)]

On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 15:58 -0400, Rev. Johnny Healey wrote:
> You know, if you would just suck it up and use "the inferior emacs",
> you could do it with this simple command:
> 
> (((lambda (m) ((lambda (f) (m (lambda (a) ((f f) a))))
>              (lambda (f) (m (lambda (a) ((f f) a))))))
>   (lambda (x) (lambda (y) (if (< y 2) 1 (* (x (- y 1)) y)))))
>  101)
> 
> I still don't understand why you vi people think everything needs to
> be so complicated.

LOL!

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.

-Jim P.