Re: E17 error

On 03/22 03:23, vimNovice wrote:
> Hi,
> I am new to programming and currently taking some online tutorials on VIM text editor through https://www.learnenough.com/text-editor-tutorial. One of the instruction is requiring me to create an alias for the bash profile as shown
>
> ~/.bash_profile
> alias lr = 'ls -hartl'
>
> and then save it using command as shown
>
> :w.
>
> However every time i tried to save, i get an error message
> E17: "/users/atem" is a directory
>
> I have attached a screenshot
>
> Any help to fix this will be greatly appreciated
> Thank you
> ivo
>
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Hi ivo,

Welcome to the club ! :))

Try to us

:w

instead of

:w.

"." is the current directory ( and your UserID is probably "atem"...
;)

HTH!
Cheers
Meino





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