Exit out of chpass

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hamid ali

Hello, I am reading the FreeBSD handbook online within Windows while I have FreeBSD setup in VirtualBox (for basically learning unix until I can get a laptop to put FreeBSD on).

So I am on this page of the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.IS...users-synopsis.html#users-modifying-chpass-su

I am looking at the chpass command and I cannot figure out who to exit out of it. I made a user 'ahmed' and then logged in as root to execute chpass ahmed and am stuck in it.

Thanks in advance.
 
chpass starts an editor which is probably vi. Exit by pressing ESC then type :wq or ZZ to save your changes or :q! to quit without saving changes. You can override the editor by setting the environment variable EDITOR. ee might be an easier to use editor: setenv EDITOR ee
 
OK, going to read about vi and its commands. Is there a command to see what the current evironment variable EDITOR is?
 
Until you're a bit more familiar with vi(1) (which may take a while as it has a rather steep learning curve), you may want to set your EDITOR variable to ee(1). It's a simpler editor and it has most of it's commands in a little window for quick reference.
 
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