From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.120.122]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ADxd9-0006dI-00 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2003 22:01:19 -0500 Received: from h-68-166-89-140.chcgilgm.covad.net ([68.166.89.140] helo=linserver.romuald.net.eu.org) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1ADxd5-0004zl-00 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Sun, 26 Oct 2003 19:01:15 -0800 Received: (qmail 14152 invoked by uid 1023); 27 Oct 2003 03:01:21 -0000 Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 21:01:21 -0600 From: Gregory Nowak To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Help with date and redhat 9 Message-ID: <20031027030121.GA14105@romuald.net.eu.org> References: <20031027020319.GA11147@gmx.net> <000001c39c32$48bdec10$6401a8c0@quantum> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000001c39c32$48bdec10$6401a8c0@quantum> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: If you want to give commands to vi, you need to proceed them with a colon ":". So, if you're out of insert or append mode by hitting escape, and you give the command ":wq" followed by enter, vi will save the file and quit. Hth. Greg On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 09:30:17PM -0500, Sina Bahram wrote: > I have got everything working now except for one thing. I realized that > my knowledge of VI which is the editor crontab is using, is rather > dotted. > > After I get out of insert mode with escape, how do I get to the place > where I can type wq to tell it to write and quit? > > Thanks, > Sina > > No trees were destroyed in sending this message. However, a large number > of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. > -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org