Sisu AikaMay 14, 2024
systemd
help i'm stuck
May 13, 2024 at 9:00pmWeb
Show threadnano's old account's rotting corpseMay 13, 2024
@systemd ctrl+x
Show threadTheo @ abtmtr.linkMay 14, 2024
@[email protected] @systemd well of course YOU would know /silly
Show threadnano's old account's rotting corpseMay 14, 2024
@mtr @systemd :3c
Show threadgenstar.serviceAug 17, 2024
@nano @systemd I tiped that, it donot work
Show threadbartholin (Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz arc)May 13, 2024
@systemd C-x C-c
Show threadENIGMATICO  May 13, 2024
@systemd Just give up on your keyboard and unplug your computer.
Show threadjelteMay 13, 2024
@systemd try :q!
Show threadRodinuxMay 13, 2024
@systemd wq!
Show threadBen S.May 13, 2024
@systemd I know it's a shitpost, but nano literally showing you at the bottom of the screen what its important commands are is one of the reasons I like it so much better :p
Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦May 13, 2024
@HunterZ @systemd i hate emacs and vim passionately. nobody has time to remember all their arcane rituals to make shit work. last time i tried to shut down emacs i gave up and just bought a new computer.
Show threadmarkMay 14, 2024
@blogdiva @HunterZ @systemd in seriousness... the first time I used Linux I couldn't make ping stop pinging, so I pulled the plug
Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦May 14, 2024
@ATLeagle @HunterZ @systemd LMAO i feel this on an existential level 😁
Show threadGunChleocMay 14, 2024

@blogdiva @ATLeagle @HunterZ @systemd I knew the DOS shortcut and it happened to be identical. Pure luck.

I keep nixing processes though when I want to copy stuff

Show threadJernej Simončič �May 14, 2024
@blogdiva @HunterZ @systemd The one time I was stuck on a machine with only vim installed, I found it easier to edit the files with sed and cat.
Show threadAndreas KMay 14, 2024

@blogdiva @HunterZ @systemd
BS. I use both, and after a decade you can usually even write basic Emacs Lisp without needing to google it.

Not that the modern Emacs with its customize interface requires much of that.

Show threadmyrmepropagandistOct 9, 2024

@blogdiva @HunterZ @systemd

OMG

Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Oct 9, 2024

team nano 4ever

@futurebird @HunterZ @systemd

Show threadmhoyeOct 9, 2024
@blogdiva @HunterZ @systemd Both Vim and Emacs are answers to the question, what if the seventies had just... kept going?
Show threadPaul CantrellOct 9, 2024
@blogdiva @HunterZ @systemd
Same here. People who care that much about text editors either aren’t spending enough time actually thinking about what they’re typing, or need to take up homebrewing or gardening or something.
Show threadBruce Heerssen Oct 9, 2024

@blogdiva @HunterZ @systemd
Vim isn't so bad. For instance, if you want to find the word "foo", type :/foo/

If you want to find all occurrences of foo, type... hold on... I've got that right here... just a sec...

Show threadRandom Geek in limboOct 9, 2024

@bruce @blogdiva @HunterZ @systemd twenty eight years of mostly Vim-based editing, and I "know" maybe half a dozen things.

My hands OTOH (hang on what? anyways moving on) look like Leonard Bernstein at the piano.

Show threadRandom Geek in limboOct 9, 2024
@bruce @blogdiva @HunterZ @systemd incidentally I rarely if ever recommend Vim. You have to break your brain a little to get used to it, and I'm not comfortable suggesting such a path.
Show threadBruce Heerssen Oct 9, 2024
@randomgeek @blogdiva @HunterZ @systemd
Same. I love vim, but for most people, I recommend a graphical text editor like Kate.
Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Oct 9, 2024

if i need a graphic editor i use Geany but i mostly stick to nano

@bruce @randomgeek @HunterZ @systemd

Show threadRandom Geek in limboOct 9, 2024

@blogdiva nano does the job well. You’re not the only smart geek I know to prefer it.

But the best thing about nano is how shocked vi / emacs folks get when they see it on your screen

@bruce @HunterZ @systemd

Show threadBen S.Oct 9, 2024

@randomgeek @blogdiva @bruce @systemd nano has been my preferred *nix text editor for probably a quarter century at this point.

Modal editors should have been left in the 20th century.

Show threadspmatich vk3spm Oct 28, 2024
@blogdiva @HunterZ @systemd not to mention (once upon a time) ed. But if you were using ed it was likely your job to know how to use it, and it was someone else’s computer, and they didn’t have enough money to replace it with one that had an X-windows console, or it hadn’t been invented yet. But this IS 2024.
Show threadGorgeous na Shock!May 14, 2024
@HunterZ @systemd Those don't stop the muscle memory, tho! Whenever I'm stuck in a ramdisk or something with just nano I end up with a ton of :ws in whatever I'm editing. 😩
Show threadsystemdMay 14, 2024
@indigoparadox sometimes, i try going down with J or ) outside vim
Show threadMianderMay 14, 2024
@HunterZ @systemd
I typed X so many times.
Show threadRoy TamOct 8, 2024
@mian @HunterZ @systemd how do you type this? what key you hit on the keyboard?
Show threadBen S.Oct 8, 2024

@roytam1 @[email protected] @systemd Control, unless maybe you're on a Mac

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@HunterZ/112947622482716282

Ben S. (@[email protected])

@[email protected] @[email protected] fair. This has been a widely-used notation for around 60 years, but I'll admit that collective memory fades over time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caret_notation

Mastodon @ SDF
Show threadSpace HoboMay 14, 2024
@HunterZ @systemd So do a version of this where someone literally types in ^X^X^X^X^X^X over and over.
Show threadfuricleMay 14, 2024
@HunterZ @systemd because ^ is obviously control? And you've wasted space...
Show threadRichard HendricksAug 12, 2024
@HunterZ @systemd Nowhere does it explain that the ^ means control.
Show threadBen S.Aug 12, 2024
@hendric @systemd fair. This has been a widely-used notation for around 60 years, but I'll admit that collective memory fades over time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caret_notation
Caret notation - Wikipedia

Show threadCan AcarSep 17, 2024

@HunterZ @systemd

shift+6+shift+x

Does not work either. Only prints ^X

Help!

Show threadLulu 🍉 לולוOct 28, 2024

@HunterZ @systemd

If we're playing the game of answering shitposts seriously, vim start screen does the same.

Show threadnicksname he/himOct 28, 2024
@HunterZ @systemd I like context help, too
Show threadeasrngMay 13, 2024
@systemd you aren’t hitting esc! that’s probably the issue!
Show threadari :autism: May 13, 2024
@systemd ‘how to exit vim’ more like ‘how to exit nano’
Show threadyoshinoya    Sep 17, 2024
@ari @systemd you don’t exit nano, nano exits you
Show threadRodinuxMay 13, 2024
@systemd 😂 Sorry I haven't see it was nano editor... It's a joke ? If not
Ctlrl + O
Enter
Ctlr + X
Show threadlick here for more infoMay 13, 2024
@systemd why are you typing :wq when it says right there you should be typing ^O^X /s
Show threadCris MihalacheMay 13, 2024
@systemd makes sense. CTRL+X bro.
Show threadOleksandr Natalenko, MSE May 13, 2024
@systemd pkill nano
Show threadLuke KaniesMay 14, 2024
@oleksandr @systemd that’s how I always quit emacs 🤷‍♂️