vim insert help in Debian

[NemmieDragon]

I am new to Linux, so forgive me for not knowing all the tricks. But I can not get the insert command to work by hitting I in vim. Now before you say use nano or some other editor, I can not. This is an assignment for my unix/Linux class. I am using the minimal version of Debian. When I type in vi /etc/fstab then I go to hit I to insert nothing happens. What am I doing wrong? I tried searching vim on here before making this post, but got no results. I am sorry if this is a repost.

[bigrigdriver]

Linux is case sensitive. In vi/vim, use the lower case i instead of upper case I to insert text.

[jalisco]

Linux is case sensitive. In vi/vim, use the lower case i instead of upper case I to insert text.

Bigrigdriver is 100% correct.

You might want to find a vi(m) cheat sheet which shows what all the characters do. Just by having that, at hand, you would be able to see that vi(m) is case sensitive.

[NemmieDragon]

Linux is case sensitive. In vi/vim, use the lower case i instead of upper case I to insert text.

[NemmieDragon]

Linux is case sensitive. In vi/vim, use the lower case i instead of upper case I to insert text.

Well I have to always do :set nocp to make it where I can use the i. What is calling this?

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Have a look in /etc/vim/vimrc.tiny — that's the system-wide configuration file.

I'm not sure if vim-tiny sources ~/.vimrc but you could check that as well.

Otherwise, you really should be using ed(1), it's the standard text editor...

[NemmieDragon]

Have a look in /etc/vim/vimrc.tiny — that's the system-wide configuration file.

I'm not sure if vim-tiny sources ~/.vimrc but you could check that as well.

Otherwise, you really should be using ed(1), it's the standard text editor...

So I have looked into the file, [set runtimepatch=~/.vim,/var/lib/vim/addons,/usr/share/vim/vimfiles,/usr/usr/share/vim/vim80,/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after,/var/lib/vim/addons/after,~/.vim/after
set compatible ]