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I've been using Vim for about 2 years now, mostly because I can't figure out how to exit it. ;)
by pinzlert 11y ago
I've been using Vim for about 2 years now, mostly because I can't figure out how to exit it. ;)
- pavlov 11y agoIsn't that one of the formative Unix moments for every newbie: some program throws you into vi and you have no idea how to get out. It's like getting your head stuffed into a toilet bowl at a boys' boarding school. Afterwards, you feel like part of the gang.
- archagon 11y agoBack at my first job, since it was a fairly infrequent occurrence, I would occasionally ask my boss how to get out of vim. He would laugh and enter some new convoluted command every time!
- StavrosK 11y agoWell, it does tell you how to exit if you press ctrl+c...
- maaaats 11y agoWhen I was new with SSH and everything, I managed to enter vim on my session on a server I was managing. Didn't manage to exit. So quit the SSH session and logged back in, still in vim, what to do? Well, I logged in as another user and rebooted the server. Not my proudest moment.
- hk__2 11y agoEmacs is the same: when you don’t know it you can’t guess you have to type ^X^C to exit it.
- wz1000 11y agoMost people use the X client for Emacs, so you can just close the window in most cases.
- tormeh 11y agoOh, boy, I laughed.
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- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoHah, at least it's not ed. https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.hup https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.hup
- geocar 11y agoI liked ed because I could see what I was writing when I was done editing. I could also see what I was looking at when I opened the editor. These two things were worth the other inconveniences of ed, IMO, until I discovered automatic tiling window managers...
- tomjen3 11y agoEd is pretty useful the moment you have to search and edit some giant file that will make Emacs vomit.
- scotty79 11y agoJust close PuTTy. That's what we were doing at school.