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| author |   Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2009-08-26 10:00:38 -0500 |
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| committer |   Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2018-05-31 22:41:17 +0200 |
| commit | 5a12e7c134274dba706667107d10d231517d3e05 (patch) | |
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Slackware 13.0slackware-13.0
Wed Aug 26 10:00:38 CDT 2009
Slackware 13.0 x86_64 is released as stable! Thanks to everyone who
helped make this release possible -- see the RELEASE_NOTES for the
credits. The ISOs are off to the replicator. This time it will be a
6 CD-ROM 32-bit set and a dual-sided 32-bit/64-bit x86/x86_64 DVD.
We're taking pre-orders now at store.slackware.com. Please consider
picking up a copy to help support the project. Once again, thanks to
the entire Slackware community for all the help testing and fixing
things and offering suggestions during this development cycle.
As always, have fun and enjoy! -P.
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diff --git a/slackbook/html/vi-saving-files.html b/slackbook/html/vi-saving-files.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..137c46b54 --- /dev/null +++ b/slackbook/html/vi-saving-files.html @@ -0,0 +1,103 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> +<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> +<head> +<meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy, see www.w3.org" /> +<title>Saving Files</title> +<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7" /> +<link rel="HOME" title="Slackware Linux Essentials" href="index.html" /> +<link rel="UP" title="Vi" href="vi.html" /> +<link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Opening Files" href="vi-opening-files.html" /> +<link rel="NEXT" title="Quitting vi" href="vi-quitting-vi.html" /> +<link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="docbook.css" /> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> +</head> +<body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" +alink="#0000FF"> +<div class="NAVHEADER"> +<table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" +cellspacing="0"> +<tr> +<th colspan="3" align="center">Slackware Linux Essentials</th> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom"><a href="vi-opening-files.html" +accesskey="P">Prev</a></td> +<td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom">Chapter 16 Vi</td> +<td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom"><a href="vi-quitting-vi.html" +accesskey="N">Next</a></td> +</tr> +</table> + +<hr align="LEFT" width="100%" /> +</div> + +<div class="SECT1"> +<h1 class="SECT1"><a id="VI-SAVING-FILES" name="VI-SAVING-FILES">16.4 Saving +Files</a></h1> + +<p>There are several ways to save files in <tt class="COMMAND">vi</tt>. If you want to +save the current buffer to the file <tt class="FILENAME">randomness</tt>, you would +type:</p> + +<table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%"> +<tr> +<td> +<pre class="SCREEN"> +<kbd class="USERINPUT">:w randomness</kbd> +</pre> +</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<p>Once you've saved the file once, saving it again is as simple as typing <b +class="KEYCAP">:w</b>. Any changes will be written out to the file. After you've saved +the file, you are dumped back into command mode. If you want to save the file and quit +<tt class="COMMAND">vi</tt> (a very common operation), you would type <b +class="KEYCAP">:wq</b>. That tells <tt class="COMMAND">vi</tt> to save the current file +and quit back to the shell.</p> + +<p>On occasion, you want to save a file that is marked as read-only. You can do this by +adding an exclamation point after the write command, like so:</p> + +<table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%"> +<tr> +<td> +<pre class="SCREEN"> +<kbd class="USERINPUT">:w!</kbd> +</pre> +</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<p>However, there will still be instances where you cannot write the file (for example, +you are attempting to edit a file that is owned by another user). When this happens, <tt +class="COMMAND">vi</tt> will tell you that it cannot save the file. If you really want to +edit the file, you'll have to come back and edit it as <tt class="USERNAME">root</tt> or +(preferably) the owner of that file.</p> +</div> + +<div class="NAVFOOTER"> +<hr align="LEFT" width="100%" /> +<table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" +cellspacing="0"> +<tr> +<td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"><a href="vi-opening-files.html" +accesskey="P">Prev</a></td> +<td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="index.html" +accesskey="H">Home</a></td> +<td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"><a href="vi-quitting-vi.html" +accesskey="N">Next</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">Opening Files</td> +<td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="vi.html" accesskey="U">Up</a></td> +<td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">Quitting vi</td> +</tr> +</table> +</div> +</body> +</html> + |