[Nottingham] Shortcut of the week

Martin Garton martin at stupids.org
Thu Sep 29 17:46:03 BST 2005


On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 16:37 +0100, Robert Hart wrote:

> This is why it's so important to set $EDITOR. There's nothing worse than
> getting dropped into vi by whatever random program decided to spawn an
> editor if you don't even know how the hell to quit the damn thing!!
> ARRGH. Thank god for virtual terminals and "killall vi" :-)

Can't quit?!

"escape" followed by ":" then "q" and "enter"

alternatively, just hold down shift and press "z" twice.

Obvious, surely? :)

-- 
Martin.

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