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- Choosing an Editor
- Starting pico and Dabbling with It
- Saving in pico
- Cutting and Pasting Text Blocks in pico
- Checking Spelling in pico
- Getting Help in pico
- Exiting pico
- Starting vi and Dabbling with It
- Saving in vi
- Adding and Deleting Text in vi
- Importing Files into vi
- Searching and Replacing in vi
- Exiting vi
- Starting emacs and Dabbling with It
- Using emacs Menus to Spell-Check
- Saving in emacs
- Exiting emacs
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Saving in pico
You'll generally save your files frequently whenever you're editing them—and you should. Remember, Murphy is watching you!
To save in pico:
Use
periodically to save (write "out") the text you're editing.hairyspiders
Specify the filename for your file (Figure 4.5).
Figure 4.5 In pico lingo, "writing out" just means "saving."
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TIPs
- After you save a file for the first time and want to save new changes, just press and then press
to confirm the current filename and save it. - When you exit pico, you'll get a last chance to save your changes. See "Exiting pico" in this chapter for the specifics.
- If you try to save a new file over an existing one—which would obliterate the original—pico carefully asks you if you want to overwrite the file. Answer Yes, and you'll no longer have the original; No, and you'll get to choose a new filename.