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<shudder> Can't stand nvi! Multiple undoes and automagic detection of
DOS files is a _pain_ 8(

Gunnar Flygt wrote:
> 
> 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
Yep.

>         <ESC> : wq       quit saving the stuff
Nah - <ESC>ZZ ( one less character, and easier to type than <ESC> : wq )

Adam.


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