Mastodawn

User: I accidentally opened vim. How do you even quit this thing?

me: that's their adoption strategy. it's the Hotel California of text editors.

@nixCraft new user in vi is a cheap random character generator

@nixCraft what's the keyboard combination for, "Stab it with our steely knives?"

@nixCraft it’s easy to get out of Vim.

1. Power down computer

2. Toss in the trash

3. Buy new computer

@nixCraft @bearmine what is possibly mysterious about ESC ! q?

@Tipa @nixCraft god help you if you accidentally hit q before colon and end up in record mode.

@bearmine @nixCraft oh fug I forgot the colon. Sorry I type it without thinking at this point.

@nixCraft Every time an instruction says "Open Vim"

I'm like. NO NO NO. I will stick with Nano, thank you very much.

Nano LOVES Me.