On 16-Dec-08 0:37, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:27:13 +0100, andrel wrote:
> 
>> On 15-Dec-08 23:15, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>>>> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>>>> And then I had to reboot the PC to get out of Vi. :-P
>>>> WTF?
>>> Do *you* know what the keystroke to quit the program is? :-P
>>>
>> q or q! if you made changes. Am I missing something?
> 
> technically, :q or :q! - the first will exit and prompt you if you made 
> changes, the second will quit and not save your changes.  If you want to 
> quit and save changes, then :w will write.  I prefer shift+ZZ myself, it 
> quits and writes changes. :-)

me too. I have been known to type ZZ to exit emacs and a variety of 
other editors.

BTW to connect a few treads: Andrew have you ever seen the Turing 
machine as implemented in vi? I had it once, it should be somewhere on 
the interweb, no doubt, but I can not immediately find it.

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