From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 16 6:22:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dart.sr.se (dart.SR.SE [193.12.91.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD23C1522E for ; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 06:22:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: from honken.sr.se ([134.25.128.27]) by dart.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA05079; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 15:19:32 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from pluto.sr.se (pluto.SR.SE [134.25.193.91]) by honken.sr.se (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA05800; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 15:19:31 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from gunnar@localhost) by pluto.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.1) id PAA12076; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 15:19:31 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gunnar) Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 15:19:31 +0200 From: Gunnar Flygt To: Langa Kentane Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: NVI Recover Prog Messages Message-ID: <19990916151931.B11805@sr.se> References: <000101beffa5$a4d12810$1ba8ef9b@impakt> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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: > > : 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 : q! quit without save or : wq quit saving the stuff -- __o regards, Gunnar ---_ \<,_ email: flygt@sr.se ---- (_)/ (_) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message