":x" (Write if necessary and quit). Fewer keystrokes. It's the same as
ZZ..I haven't gone back to ":wq" after a fellow engineer showed me that one.
On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 10:08 AM Shaun Anderson via PLUG-discuss <
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> People will probably beat this to death, but take some time and go through
> the tutorials, and really learn it. The ramp is a bit steep, but it is
> such an efficient editor. You don't need to learn every esoteric way of
> doing things, but a dozen or more keys will have you zipping around in no
> time.
>
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 8:58 AM Michael via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> hmmmm, when I go back to look at the file there is nothing in it
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 11:52 AM Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> thanks guys. I should have done a web search. Sorry.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 11:49 AM Matt Graham via PLUG-discuss <
>>> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2021-09-10 08:36, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>>>> > how does one save and exit with vi?
>>>>
>>>> (escape):wq or (escape)ZZ . If you're going to try to use vim, you
>>>> should start by running vimtutor. That will show you how to use all
>>>> the
>>>> basic features of the editor.
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