Suchandra
bram dingelstad 
this has to be the most hilarious popup i've had ever #Obsidian
this has been my best toot ever, follow me for more niche editor content i guess?
Ian Douglas Scott@bram By far my most popular post was a joke about vi, so clearly humor related to 1970s text editors is the best way to go viral on the fediverse.
I need to write a good Emacs joke. Hm, Emacs probably has a jokes-mode for that...
Or a joke about ed, but
?
hazelnot 
@ids1024 @bram my most popular post is either some meme I stole from reddit or that high-effort meme I made about Activate Linux (https://sunbeam.city/@hazelnot/108221918216829832 if you're curious)
hazelnot :yell: (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image I have created the logical conclusion of this meme
StarkRG@bram As a vim user, the only thing funnier than a joke about emacs users is a joke about vim users. We don't joke about nano users because humour doesn't punch down.
@bram jokes on you we're already mutuals
@bram thank god honestly, if I ever accidentally toggle that stuff on I'd have to restart the thing
Denman Rooke@bram hahahahaha
A Very Nervous Gamedev@bram omg I love this
Alina Yossimouse
Triss 
@alinanorakari
I’m pretty sure about that 😹
And I’m also very sure that a lot of vim users are laughing tears over it (I’m one of them).
king toot uncommon
Mg. Gamer 
@bram obsidian moment
SEGFAULT@bram this is good ux. Frankly I think most users would benefit from a similar popup warning of the dangers of using a computer every time they power it on
El Jefe "
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@bram effing brilliant.
@infosec_jcp 🐈🃏 done differently
Саша Морс, here we go again...@bram I lol'd when I hit it, but I think it's approps
I’m Tired And Everything Hurts@bram Hahaha, that’s brilliant
Rob Turner 🇪🇺
Adam ^^@runningrobderby @bram alt: Woman in an protective suit holding a whiteboard with the text: "ESC :q!"
Jeff Grigg@adamwarvergeben @runningrobderby @bram
For a little more context:
The image is from the movie "Arrival." The woman is a linguist who is attempting to communicate with aliens that have arrived from outer space by writing and showing words on a hand-held whiteboard.
The text shown on the whiteboard is not from the movie; it was edited in.
And understanding vim being like trying to communicate with aliens from outer space is probably a good analogy.
PlexSheep 
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n3wjack@plexsheep @bram ah yes, the problem with vim, is that you start to want vim everywhere.
Nina Reynolds@bram maybe it is time to switch to obsidian indeed
kechpaja@bram It should ask for at least two different ways of doing that just to be sure xD.
Ysegrim
Steve Popovich@bram yeesh. things that make you go :q!
Kevin Karhan 
@bram I think it's not hillarious but makes sense to stop noobs from fecking up their setup!
cspray@bram When I saw this the first time I actually laughed out loud. I like Vim mode in most of my editors and I think this is absolutely great.
andreasdotorg@bram ^Zkill%1
Larry ClappHa. It'd be even funnier if your last name was Moolenaar.
Steven D. Brewer 🏳️⚧️This reminds of how I discovered that the ed substitute command works in Discord. My brother @philipbrewer teases me for making typos, so in Signal, when I make a typo, I'll send a followup message "s/typo/fixed" to prevent him from teasing me. But when I did that in Discord IT JUST WORKED!
Philip Brewer@stevendbrewer @bram In the interests of full disclosure: I tease him anyway.
Potung Thul
Herbert@bram well, it's a good check tbh. I've been stuck in Vim at one time, not knowing how to get out of it 😅.
Julio J. 🀲
ShadSterling@bram something like that would have helped me, about 30 years ago
Hey, maybe some software *is* getting easier to use
Josh Bressers
starfall(8)@bram i'm always curious what these accept, given it's vim and there's usually a couple ways to go about doing something
:q! is what they're expecting, what about ZQ? :exit? :!pkill vim?
gadgetoid@bram this would have saved me having to force power off my computer if it were built into vim in the late nineties.
Brecht Savelkoul@bram good UX 🤝 excellent punchline
👍Maximum Derek👍@bram Theres a VIM mode for Obsidian?!!
**Commence happy dance**
Brandon@bram omg I love it
Ken Anderson@bram @lisamelton I had the exact same reaction when I used Obsidian for the first time. Knowledge of VIM is embedded in my lizard brain.
Григорий Клюшников@bram they should implement that into Emacs or something as a joke xD
DaveRe: Obsidian / vim mode
Which command does it accept as the One True Way?
Asking for a friend 🙃
[Delete and retoot after I read the popup properly]
Swift (will be at EMF)
Swift (@[email protected])
@[email protected] Bonus points: it says "the command", but there's at least two it'll accept.
Mx. Alba 
@bram That's actually a pretty smart way to avoid a lot of confusion and frustration...
:q!
Heals 
Velyn@heals that's the secret answer for how you open the hidden entrance to the treasure room
Timo Zimmermann@bram does `shutdown -r now` work? *scnr*
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE@bram Word Perfect had no such message! I fired it up once to see what it was like - blank screen with just a cursor, no menu, F1 didn't provide any help. How to get out of it? Power cycle worked, and I went back to WordStar (menu defaulted on, you could turn it off when you no longer needed it).
Kago@bram I like that dialog - The only problem is there are several right answers, and that dialog only accepts one of them.
Resuna