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Obvious question demands an obvious answer. No. No-one can exit vim. I started using it nearly 30 years ago now and there is still no end in sight. I’m pret
by seanhunter 7mo ago
Obvious question demands an obvious answer. No. No-one can exit vim.
I started using it nearly 30 years ago now and there is still no end in sight. I’m pretty much convinced it’s just not possible at this point.
- griffzhowl 7mo agoDid you try turning your computer off and on?
- seanhunter 7mo agoThe irony here is I have been using vim for nearly 30 years and I actually do sometimes have problems quitting. Some background needed. Obviously I know how to exit so it's not that. I always have the following remap in my vimrc: > noremap :W :w > noremap :Q :q What this means is if I'm going fast I don't need to get my little finger off the shift between the colon and the w/q to quit if I do it that way. Normally I quit using "ZZ" which doesn't require any shenanigans but whatever. However, if I'm sshed into a remote machine or on a different account/in a docker container/vm or whatever and I don't have my .vimrc around most things are completely fine[1] except that I occasionally have some cognitive dissonance when I try to quit and nothing happens because I have subconsciously done ":Q" instead of "ZZ" or whatever, and my brain does a brief double-take before realising what happened. [1] Yes you don't need a highly customized vimrc to function - most defaults are OK especially if you can load vim-sensible