[Nottingham] Grub quickie help please

[sparkes]

On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 20:27:35 +0000
"A. Devin Giddings" <ppxadg at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 08:22:03PM +0000, Michael Erskine wrote:
> > Roger Light wrote:
> > >On 16/03/06, Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk> wrote:
> > >>sudo vim /boot/grub/menu.lst
> > >>to edit and finish with "ESC :w! :q" to write the read-only file.
> > >How inefficient...
> > >Use "ESC :wq!" and save yourself two key presses :)
> > 
> > Surely that "!" is superfluous: <esc>:wq will suffice :)
> 
> Not if it is a read-only file!
> 

I concur with Michael, the sudo renders the ! unneeded at least my
experience.

sparkes 
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