On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Benjamin Huot wrote: > How do I quit vi? My system is stuck in vi and I don't know how to quit.
this is a common rite of passage for those joining a unix environment the answer if you are still looking for it is: [esc]:wq! the escape key drops you back to command mode : is the command prefix w writes the file q quits the editor and ! (bang) overides any pending jobs as you can see vi has a very terse instruction set; emacs on the other hand has a much better UI and gives you a fair amount of teaching ctrl-h T once emacs is running will tell you all you need to know. and if you need to quit ctrl-x ctrl-c will get you out. HTH ;-) > > Landscapes of the Mind > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- http://www.efn.org/~laprice ( Community, Cooperation, Consensus http://www.opn.org ( Openness to serendipity, make mistakes http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but learn from them.(carpe fructus ludi)
