If you want to give commands to vi, you need to proceed them with a colon ":". So, if you're out of insert or append mode by hitting escape, and you give the command ":wq" followed by enter, vi will save the file and quit. Hth. Greg On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 09:30:17PM -0500, Sina Bahram wrote: > I have got everything working now except for one thing. I realized that > my knowledge of VI which is the editor crontab is using, is rather > dotted. > > After I get out of insert mode with escape, how do I get to the place > where I can type wq to tell it to write and quit? > > Thanks, > Sina > > No trees were destroyed in sending this message. However, a large number > of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. > -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org
