[Novalug] Unable to terminate a vi program
Nino Pereira
pereira@speakeasy.net
Sun Apr 26 17:05:52 EDT 2009
Charlie,
here are my panic buttons. They may work for you too.
1: do 'ps -aux'. This gives you a long list of programs
that run on the machine. Find the one that's giving
problems (in your case: vi or more likely vim), find
the Process ID (the number in the second column, say 12345) and do
'kill -9 12345'
That should make the offending process disappear.
2: For really serious problems (screen locked up, greek or korean
letters when you type latin letters), reboot.
HTH,
Nino
Charles M Howe wrote:
> List,
>
> Elementary problem, I guess, but enough to puzzle me.
>
> I was in my home directory. I did
>
> ls --color=auto -R ch*>ch-filelist
>
> I meant to do
>
> vi ch-filelist
>
> but I got careless and actually did
>
> vi ch*>ch-filelist
>
> Now I'm stuck. It comes back
>
> vim: Warning: Output is not to a terminal
>
> but I haven't been able to do anythging. Cntrl-C doesn't work. Neither
> does ZZ. What can I do? and where is it going?
>
> Charlie
>
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