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Is ":q!" really that crazy after 2 secs with Google?

• entelechy0 9y ago
  I always use ZZ
• Certhas 9y ago
  Yes it is, if you are coming from a GUI life, start using the shell for the first time, and suddenly get thrown into some unnamed editor by git. :P It breaks about every convention on editors and discoverability that you're used to. Start GNU nano. It puts me in a position where typing edits the file I opened. It shows me the name of the program. It shows some keyboard shortcuts for interacting with the program. (Though for beginners the ^X syntax isn't obvious either). Vim, doesn't give me any of that. I infrequently use vim and I still tend to open a file and start typing without hitting i first, because it's behaviour that's inconsistent with every single other editor I have ever used.
  • netzone 9y ago
    My worst memories of starting out with programming is doing a git merge or pull, then before the command was done, I'd start typing git push or... and then I got stuck in insert mode. This was after I had learned that :q och :wq! did the job, and I could not for the life of me figure out how to get out of insert mode. Fun times.
  • throwaway7645 9y ago
    Or because every other editor you've had is inconsistent with Vim. It is dumb if people are being dumped there by Git. I guess if you try to use it and get stuck it is a lot easier to escape than if someone gets dumped there without even knowing where they are.
• kefabean 9y ago
  Or (I'm surprised it's not been mentioned already): Shift-ZZ to save and close (saves an extra keystroke)