On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 08:30:48 -0700 (PDT), Terje Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
--- lorne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Friday 26 September 2003 05:43 pm, Terje Heen wrote: > Hi there. > How to edit the lilo.conf with vi?? > Can not seem to save the read only file.... > (not familiar with this editor :-) > If you are doing this a root, you should be able to do a :w! and then :q.
Hello Lorne. I'm very glad for all info I can get. Ok. so far so good. Im gonna change vga=788 to vga=normal due to a framebuffer problem. With the lilo.conf open in vi i hit "i" for insert and edit 788 to normal. (the text becomes blue for some reason). Then I go out with esc. and try to save. Then vi tells me "argument required"... Sorry for my "bad knowhow" about linux, but I find linux very interresting and I have to start someplace..... :-)
:x and :wq should save your changes and exit vi, :w should save the file but not quit vi, and :save <filename> will save the file to a new name. Of these I listed, only :save requires an argument - the filename.
There's a good primer - "Learning the VI Editor" by O'Reilly and it includes a Quick Reference Guide. I borrowed the book from the library, read it once, and photocopied the reference guide.
Nothing better than a "vi cheatsheet"! It just so happens I have such a page running on my apache server. It has all the shortcuts outlined in brevity. All are welcome to download......
http://www.trismegistus.net/vi_cheatsheets.htm
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