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Originally Posted by virtuald
This is precisely why you should teach a high school student to use basic VIM -- hitting 'i' and ':wq' isn't that hard.
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I thought it was <esc>:wq
or is that plain old VI? Plain old VI is an important skill, because sometimes one does not have a GUIish (well, better than VT-100) connection to that machine you're talking to.
I'm an Emacs guy at work, somewhat because of its genealogy back to TECO,
I'm liking the comments about getting the kids on the command line. I'm tired of newbe MSEE's showing up to their first real job with absolutely no clue what can happen through the Unix/Linux (pick your shell, no religious arguments please) command line, which is the core of how we design semiconductors.
Tim