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 plain
old bash prompt.
Is this possible? Of course I can always kill the terminal that I'm running
in to avoid running the command as soon as vi exits. Or I can try to press
ctrl+C as fast as possible.
I was hoping for a better alternative.
Please help.
Thanks,
Ven
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