On Wednesday 09 October 2002 7:57 pm, Voytek Eymont wrote: > 1. > if I get a 'problem' on a console, such as: > > I can't get out of an editor... > and, after a while, I've tried every possible sequence I can think off, > and, I'm still inside an editor.... > > how do I kill whatever on say console 2 ?
You are most likely in vi or vim. To exit press esc then :q <enter> or :q! <enter> that is a colon and q and then enter or colon q exclamation mark then enter. > 2. > if I'm running mc without a mouse, mc has a command line history as > '[^]' , how can I get that without mouse, what key combo ? <alt> p cycles back through the history or press F9 (function-9) and go to the command menu and down to history to get the entire history displayed. HTH Stay well and happy Heracles -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
