| ▲ | marttt a day ago |
| I've long quit using vim on a daily basis, but the "how to exit Vim?" jokes are still somehow funny. A recent encounter was an old tweet by @iamdeveloper: "I've been using Vim for about 2 years now, mostly because I can't figure out how to exit it." :wq (sorry, I had to). |
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| ▲ | pjio a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| Quitting vim isn't about exiting the program, which can easily be done with :!kill -9 $PPID |
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| ▲ | Jenk a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| `ZZ` to save and quit, `ZQ` to quit without saving. Sorry, I can't help myself. |
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| ▲ | Brian_K_White a day ago | parent | next [-] | | I've always used :x or :x! and no longer remember why. Probably it's a bad idea like without actually looking right now I think it might mean to ignore permissions (if you're root enough) and just write even if perms would have blocked it. Hm, maybe x means wq and just the ! means force. | | |
| ▲ | mklein994 a day ago | parent [-] | | It's actually a bit more nuanced: `:x` is like `:wq`, but only writes if changes have been made. `:x!` has the same semantics as `:wq!`. | | |
| ▲ | BoiledCabbage a day ago | parent | next [-] | | The fact that everyone says the meme is dead, but in this small thread there are 5 different people posting how to exit, and none of them are the same says there is still pretty good substance behind that meme. | | |
| ▲ | Brian_K_White 20 hours ago | parent [-] | | I think we're all kind of implicitly acknowledging the truth of the meme. I mean that was definitely a conscious part of my own comment. |
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| ▲ | humanperhaps a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | I feel like the default behavior should be to not write unless changes have been made. I may be misunderstanding here, but what would be getting written if nothing's been changed? | | |
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| ▲ | entelechy0 a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | [dead] |
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| ▲ | EFreethought 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I think sysadmins should install nano on servers for people to make quick edits. All the commands are along the bottom, so there is no learning curve. |
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| ▲ | onetom 12 minutes ago | parent [-] | | or they should just make sure emacs can work with the machine thru ssh, then there is nothing to install ;) if no ssh, then nano is not a bad option, though i would go with joe (https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io/) which can also show the shortcuts, but much much more powerful, yet it's just a single ~700kbyte exe (or 1.5MB with some optional syntax highlighting grammars and docs) |
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