On Saturday 04 October 2008 04:11:30 Henry W. Peters wrote:
> The
>
> $ sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> command brings up the called file in the terminal window. My
> problem now is, that I cannot figure how to edit it & then save it?
> (yikes, seems like it should be so simple! & probably is :-[ ).
> There is no save menu option in the terminal window (that I know
> of...(?)). I did something like this before, only it called up the
> text editor (I think it was something like gedit... <something,
> something>), then saved it (this was to configure my modem when I
> first started using Ubuntu /last year/).
In vim, press 'i' to enter the "insert mode"; add the needed lines,
return to the "command mode" by <ESC> and type ":w" to save the file.
":q" (a shortcut for ":quit") will close vim.
More simple command line editor is nano and you may try it as well.
Or just run `sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list` if you're stick to GUI.
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