cburyta
nixCraft 🐧User: I accidentally opened vim. How do you even quit this thing?
me: that's their adoption strategy. it's Hotel California of text editors
enistello@nixCraft CTRL X, CTRL C. Dammit, no...
Harald E. Langner@nixCraft I think it was [ESC] and at the ":" prompt type: q!
zetabeta
ryan_oke@nixCraft oh, no.. on a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
kkeller
zedaardv@nixCraft Years ago, when the debate raged between vi and emacs, and I was new to linux/unix i made my decision of which to use with a little test.
I opened a file in vi and emacs. the one i could exit from without looking at documentation would be the one i would use.
vi won.
I opened a file in vi and emacs. the one i could exit from without looking at documentation would be the one i would use.
vi won.
Secret Squirrel
🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🐧 🥦I had the same experience in school.
To this day :wq is the only Vi ( I went to school a long time ago ) command I remember.
Andrew@nixCraft @rasterweb I don't know much, but whenever I'm carefully following some installation instructions and it says "now type vim config and change these lines"... I know to use nano instead so I don't have to look up MORE instructions!
Pete Prodoehl 🍕
Ɲєιƚ Ƃιɍƌ 凤@rasterweb @Andrew @nixCraft The account of time it takes to save off and exit nano annoys me every time I try it. But then I've been using vim for decades now, so…
@fnxweb @rasterweb @nixCraft if I'm being honest, my go-to for anything more than a minor edit is xed. 😅
Muffin
herbert
Owen Tyme@nixCraft CTRL+Z, followed by using 'ps -A |grep vi' to get the process number of vi. Next, use the 'kill' command to get rid of that process. Proceed to 'kill -9' if it refuses to go away.
DarkCyberman
Karstadtdetektiv@nixCraft you can :w any time you like but you can never :q!
MFierst@nixCraft
🤣 😂
Yes. It is like that, is it not?
The proper answer to the questions is: "Why would you want to quit vim?" 🤭
Ministerofimpediments@nixCraft Dunno what you are talking about. They literally have a hard button for that…it’s called the “Power Button”
D@nixCraft vim literally says how to exit in the middle of the screen when you first open it. If you can't read, text editors may not be for you.
Areskul@nixCraft only way is to reboot computer
John Q McDonald@nixCraft emacs is far worse
Fubaroque
Porkchop D. Clown@nixCraft Have you ever tried to quit minicom?
vorsprung@nixCraft I learnt to use vi in 1988. Now, if I accidentally get nano (ie by running visudoers) I have learnt how to quit
John Breen@nixCraft Go colon queue bang yourself.
Mark Crocker
Colin Rafferty MOVED@nixCraft Exiting vi has gotten so much easier. In the past, I worked on multiuser shared systems, so I couldn’t just reboot it like I do now.
maholtz@nixCraft as far as I remember: hard boot. Power off and on again. Well that was vi not vim. But I guess it works with vim too...
Jona 🐳@nixCraft The same way you quit ed & ex, duh.
Omer Preminger@nixCraft everyone knows that the real way to quit
vim is to open another terminal, find the vim pid using ps, and kill it. this was as far as UX research had advanced as of the early 90s.
Minty@nixCraft Vim runs in kernel space. It cannot be killed. Long live Vim. ha ha ha ha.
Professor_StevensThat would be emacs. I believe there are terminals I walked away from in the '80s where an emacs session is still running under my user credentials.
upsideDownGeck0@nixCraft do :q! 10 times miserably, cursing yourself, hope and pray that it will close. Or open another terminal and forget about this one.
RyanParsley@nixCraft such a lovely place
Dan Riley@nixCraft If you somehow happen to run the (poorly named) physics analysis application called ROOT, remember ".qqqqqq". (I forget if the "q"s past the third or fourth actually do anything, but it doesn't hurt, and your "q" key is likely otherwise sadly neglected.)
Jona Joachim
Gemma 👽@nixCraft
This flashed briefly on my screen when I opened the app, then a syndicate of toots loaded, hiding this before I got to the punchline. I had to hunt this down scrolling and scrolling, forgetting (thanks ADHD) what it even was that I was looking for so vigorously, but here it is. And it's excellent. Thank you.
This flashed briefly on my screen when I opened the app, then a syndicate of toots loaded, hiding this before I got to the punchline. I had to hunt this down scrolling and scrolling, forgetting (thanks ADHD) what it even was that I was looking for so vigorously, but here it is. And it's excellent. Thank you.
alarig@nixCraft @Chouhartem such a lovely place