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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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regards, Gunnar       ---_ \<,_
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