In article <mailman.764.1243352981.8015.python-l...@python.org>, Bar Shirtcliff <barshirtcl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I can't say a thing about other editors, except that when some shell > script perversely dumped me into vi a month ago, I felt as horrified > as if some actually living bugs had crawled out of my own reflection > on the computer screen and fallen, clicking and scraping, onto the > keyboard. That's a personal reaction - totally irrelevant, of course. <esc> : q ! <return> All the vi you ever need to know :-) The real problem is when you get dumped into some editor other than you one you expected and don't realize it for a while. It's really amazing how much damage you can do to a file by typing (for example) emacs commands at vi. Especially if you accidentally stumble upon the sequence for "save file". -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
