Thursday, January 19, 2017

Password Protect file in vim text editor

Password protecting file in vim text editor
add +X before any file name & it will prompt you to enter a password

Example
vim +X filename

Now next time it will ask for the password while opening the file

If you don't want the password you can simply remove the same with below stpes
Open you file & press Esc

:set key=
then, save the file

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