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Vi text editor

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My prefered text editor is nano/pico but some distros use vi for editing. 

 

Here are some quick commands to remember when editing in vi.

 

To access vi you would type the following:

vi yourfile.txt

 

To quit the program hit Esc then SHIFT :

This will give you a prompt to type the following to quit(and not save)

q!

If youwant to quit and save what you have done type the following:

!wq 
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