Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 15:19:31 +0200 From: Gunnar Flygt <gunnar@pluto.sr.se> To: Langa Kentane <evablunted@earthling.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: NVI Recover Prog Messages Message-ID: <19990916151931.B11805@sr.se> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SC5.4.10.9909161705190.20531-100000@kiwi.logisticsoftware.co.nz> References: <000101beffa5$a4d12810$1ba8ef9b@impakt> <Pine.SC5.4.10.9909161705190.20531-100000@kiwi.logisticsoftware.co.nz>
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On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 05:09:55PM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Langa Kentane wrote:
>
> > I installed my FreeBSD 3.2-R yesterday and have since got about 25 of these
> > messages about some files being saved for recovery. I tried to changed my
> > shell yesterday but had problems with VI and am still preparing to learn how
> > to edit in vi. I could not exit vi so I stopped the process and went and
> > killed it about 5 min later.
>
> When you kill vi, it will save a session that you can recover (some
> of the time). The editor will email you about it.
>
> And the way to quit vi is to hit:
>
> <ESC> : q
>
> Jonathan Chen
And to give a little more info. If you wrote something in the file and
does not want to save it before quit, you hir
<ESC> : q! quit without save or
<ESC> : wq quit saving the stuff
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