Unix vi save file different name

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Featured on Meta. New post summary designs on greatest hits now, everywhere else eventually. To switch to insert mode, press the i key. Now you can type text into a file.

Press : colon to open the prompt bar in the bottom left corner of the window. Type x after the colon and hit Enter. This will save the changes and exit. Alternatively, a command that will also save a file and exit the text editor is:. Type : colon. This will open the prompt bar in the bottom left corner of the window.

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Mark Forums Read. Thread Tools. View Public Profile for ukadmin. Find all posts by ukadmin. View Public Profile for criglerj. Find all posts by criglerj. I am interested to do this in neovim — gypaetus. MigueldeVal-Borro Just use vim-eunuch. It also works for Neovim. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. RevoGen 3 2 2 bronze badges.

OrangeTux OrangeTux 3, 1 1 gold badge 17 17 silver badges 26 26 bronze badges. One downside of :w or :saveas is that it will lose the execute permission if you were editing a script. Is :Move effetively the same as :! You could drop to Netrw and rename the file there.

If the file you're editing is in the current directory, then do: :edit. If those who use this snippet need to delete the buffer with the old file, you can add exec ':bd '. Cody Poll Cody Poll 4 4 silver badges 8 8 bronze badges.

A bit dirty since the old buffer is still in place but with NerdTree plugin it's good enough for me:! Zaar Hai Zaar Hai 1 1 bronze badge.