How can to save and cancel changes in VI Editor

[Nadine Silue]

Dears,


Can someone help me to know how to save and cancel changes in VI Editor.

PLS

[Pete Randall]

To save: wq!
To cancel: q!


Pete

[Wouter Jagers · Accepted solution]

To save and quit (write quit):
- hit ESC
- type ':wq' (without the quotes)

To just save (write):
- hit ESC
- type ':w' (without the quotes)

To quit, cancelling changes (force quit):
- hit ESC
- type ':q!' (without the quotes)

This document provides more very useful info on the vi editor: http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/vi.html

Cheers,
Wout

[Jaime Bolanos Rojas.]

Nadine,

Type ZZ to quit the program saving the changes, and if you want to quit without saving the changes type :q!

Press the ESC key to enter those commands...

Also for more references, just search for "vi sheet cheat" on google and you are going to find plenty of good info

Regards,

Jaime.

[Dennis Handly]

To save you can use either "ZZ" or :wq
To abort all changes and exit: :q!
To undo the last set of changes, either "u" or "U".

>Pete: To save: wq!
>To cancel: q!

There should be a colon after the to get you into ex(1) command mode.

[MarkSyder]

To cancel a change made in error:

esc :u

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

[MarkSyder]

Oops! Dennis, I was only 1 minute 18 secs behind you, so I think you can see I wasn't point hunting ;-)

Mark

[Adam W.]

man vi

[Khairul_1]

Hi Nadine

use super user root for edit any system file:
you can get more help from
#man vi
#vi

To save: wq!
To cancel: q!

Thanks
khairul

[Asif Sharif]

Read the vi editor Quick reference.

http://www.adminschoice.com/docs/vi_editor_ref.htm

Regards,
Asif Sharif