[sf-lug] written likely using vi/vim

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Thu Jul 21 16:00:38 PDT 2016


Quoting aaronco36 (aaronco36 at linuxwaves.com):

> And many of us no doubt realize that there are 
> *another* notable "two specific <things>" used to 
> write and then exit a file.
> That would be the consecutive keypair 
> combinations of ctrl-x followed by ctrl-c (and 
> then 'y') used by a certain famous Linux 
> commandline editor that continues to heavily 
> compete with vi and its variants [3]  ;-) 

Indeed, it's extremely useful to know how to get out of Emacs!  
I frequently have to look that up on sites were $VISUAL is set 
wrong.  ;->





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