Running Lifelines con't

After you enter that "p" you get

0 INDI
1 NAME Fname/Surname
1 SEX MF
1 BIRT
  2 DATE
  2 PLAC
1 DEAT
  2 DATE
  2 PLAC
1 SOUR

which is a template to get you started.

At this point you have been dumped into your default editor
(vi in this example) and you simply fill in what information you have.