Hi Ven!

On Fr, 23 Mär 2012, Ven Tadipatri wrote:

> Hi,
>    This may sound like a real newbie question, but when I do the "set -o
> vi"
> in the bash command line shell, if I hit <Esc> and v on the command line,
> it goes into vi editing mode. This is kind of cool, as I can exercise
> the full editing power of vi, and when I exit the editor it runs the
> command.
>   Unfortunately, sometimes I may have a really
> powerful/dangerous/unnecessary
> command that I've typed, and all I want to do is just cancel, not execute
> the
> command. How do I do this?
>   :q! doesn't seem to work, as the command still runs. :wq , well, I don't
> want
> to save anything, I just want to get out of the editor and return to the

Actually, :q! should work and always did for me.
I would guess, that bash only executes the file, if it's timestamp has 
been changed. May be some plugin that sets an WriteCmd autocmd or 
something? 

Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Christian
-- 
Wie man sein Kind nicht nennen sollte: 
  Don Erstag 

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