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> As said elsewhere, you literally cannot get started in Vim without knowing a dozen command and grokking modes You need i, escape, :w! and !wq. hjkl too if y
by Zababa 5y ago
> As said elsewhere, you literally cannot get started in Vim without knowing a dozen command and grokking modes
You need i, escape, :w! and !wq. hjkl too if you're feeling fancy. But i, escape, :w! and !wq is all you need to use Vim. I know because I used it like that for two years in college.
- vidarh 5y agoCtrl-z followed by killall -9 vim is how I usually exited vim. I once pissed off dozens of customers by symlinking vim to emacs on one of our shell servers (back when isps gave you login access to a Linux/Unix box... (Yes, it wasn't very nice, but it was funny)