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I met my wife when she asked me how to get out of vi. She was a new PhD student, and I was the departmental sysadmin. To be fair to her, she knew vi just fine
by drewg123 8y ago
I met my wife when she asked me how to get out of vi.
She was a new PhD student, and I was the departmental sysadmin. To be fair to her, she knew vi just fine, but we had these messed up DEC keyboards with no ESC, where ESC was mapped to F11.
- koolba 8y agoOne more reason never to use Emacs!
- gumby 8y agoThis was a vi problem; Emacs mainly uses escape for when your keyboard doesn’t have a meta key, which most did by the 1980s
- brownbat 8y agoClassic and important question. By some rights, stack overflow is a site designed to help people escape vim, and fills time between users getting trapped with off topic conversations about programming: https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/05/23/stack-overflow-helping-one-million-developers-exit-vim/ https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/05/23/stack-overflow-helping... Glad it wasn't the answer in your case, of course. :)
- eloff 8y agoBest how we met story ever! Thanks for sharing.
- quickthrower2 8y agoAh that old excuse! Maybe she just wanted to talk to you
- raverbashing 8y agoWell come on now... F11?
- acheron 8y agoBest comment. > but we had these messed up DEC keyboards with no ESC One of these things? https://deskthority.net/wiki/File:LK201AA_top.jpg https://deskthority.net/wiki/File:LK201AA_top.jpg I'd have trouble getting out of vi with that too.
- drewg123 8y agoYes, exactly. We had a combination of DECstation 2100 and 3100s for the grad students to use.
- Carpetsmoker 8y agoSo how do you get out of vi with that keyboard?