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[–] [email protected] 129 points 1 year ago (8 children)
[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago

Restart the computer ;)

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's pretty simple:

  • Spam the escape key a bit
  • Then do shift + ;
  • when you're in command mode, do the following
  • q! to forcibly quit
  • wq! to forcibly write your changes and quit

Simple!-ish

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not to be pedantic, but it's not shift+; it's :, which may be somewhere else depending on your keyboard. For example on (german?) Quertz that's shift+.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

This is true, but since I already used ":" to indicate an upcoming list, I wanted to be deliberately clear that I was referring to the key, and not suggesting another list.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why would you want to do that? Vim is efficiency. Without vim, you're wasting your life.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know exactly what you mean. Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It's all around.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Exactly. What OP should do is never close vim. You don’t need to close it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A surprised emoticon with a cigar hanging out of its mouth isn't particularly helpful.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

All vim commands are emoticons

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You just discarded all of your changes.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah, because it all got trashed from the previous keyboard mashing.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Simply spend a couple hours configuring vim

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

opening vim is like entering purgatory

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For the longest time I thought that answer was Ctrl-Z

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Same here in the beginning I used

Ctrl-z

kill %1

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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