[quote=Phinger,Dec. 16 2005,16:03]w to save and :wq to save and quit.
How do I get to print "w" or "wq" in VI?? When I write it with the keyboard it prints this in then file.. Is there a buttom to push?? Whitch one??
Thx in forhand...If it prints what you type in the file buffer, you are in insert mode. Press Esc to get back to normal mode (for entering commands) and type :w to write the file or :wq to to write and quit. The colon tells vim that the following will be a command rather than a control/navigation key. http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/
You can also change your mc editor using the EDITOR environment variable. Open up ~/.bashrc and add "export EDITOR=nano" to use nano instead of vim. Keep in mind this won't affect shells that are currently open, so you'll probably want to restart X (exit fluxbox then type 'startx').
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