[Gllug] vi vs emacs (repeat)

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On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Benedikt Heinen stated:
>>> // :/wq is the only vi command I know, or have ever needed to know.
>>
>> Thats a bit like me. Unfortunately I don't know much more about emacs, although I do use emacs.
>> The vi command I do know is :wq! which writes to a write protected file. If I knew how to do this in emacs I wouldn't need to exit
>> emacs and load vi to achieve this feat.
> 
> When you load the write-protected file, emacs doesn't let you change it. What you can do is just use
>  	M-x toggle-read-only
> and then edit the file.

The default keybinding of C-x C-q may be easier to remember. :)

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