11 mo. ago • 100%

vimrule

First time when you ssh into your Linux terminal and you gotta “sudo crontab -e” or something and it’s like “what editor do you want to use?” and nano sounds lame so you choose vim cause the sound is cool when you say it and then you have to wipe the whole comp and start over

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How do I exit Vim?

escape colon w q

One of life's great mysteries

escape colon w q

I'm pretty sure it's impossible

it is literally. the first result on google.

The best way is to change to another terminal and forcequit it from there

escape then Shift+Z twice also works. or shift+Z shift+Q to quit without saving.

Or hard restart your entire computer

Are you people allergic to search engines or someth--

Bill Joy made vi impossible to exit because he wanted the source to always be open

siiiiiiiiigh

Yes, I'm an old man yelling at cloud, but Vim and Neovim are fantastic text editors that really are worth the half hour you'll spend running through the tutorial to learn them, and the subsequent two weeks you'll spend installing plugins and configuring it exactly to your liking. It really does make writing software more efficient and really doesn't deserve the reputation it gets from "vim is hard to exit lmao" memes made by people who haven't bothered to change their $EDITOR to nano, had it launch automatically when they tried to write a commit message, and instantly decided it was just yet another piece of arcane 80s Unix bullshit

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- vi isn't a text editor as much as it's a text manipulation language.
  
  It has a syntax, grammar, idioms, and, yes, a learning curve.
  
  But once you learn it, it's as close to a brain-computer interface as I've experienced. You start thinking about edits as chainable operations and it literally becomes muscle memory -- if you ask someone experienced with vi how they just did a complex sequence of edits, chances are they'll have to stop and consciously walk through it because they literally didn't have to think about it the first time.
  
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  got any online course recommendations? my college recommended missing semester for the basics of the basics, but i know there are so many more and other vim workflows (easy motions etc)
  
  although i should first start getting into touch typing
  
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- "All my homies hate :wq"
  
  :x gang
  
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- At first I did now understand it, why would you even use it??(vim / neovim) It would take ages to learn it all. Then got around to try it, and in a span of like a week, I couldnt go back to editing text with a mouse. I wasnt efficient at first, but damn was it fun. Just cruising around the codebase without touching the mouse (as much as i could.)
  
  Yeah, it makes you more efficient if youve learnt it enough, but at the same time, it makes editing literal text way more enjoyable. You need to edit some boilerplate, and it actually becomes somewhat interesting like: 'Can I use a macro here', or 'How can i do it the most efficient way?’.
  
  I think it also gives you a state of mind as well (for me it definitely shaped it.) You want to learn your tools, you want to understand what makes a good text editor (ex. LSP), or just perfecting your usabilitx of a terminal / shell.
  
  At the same time, damn sometimes its a straight up curse that i learnt vim. I open any other text editor and i just curse the whole time: 'Where are my vim motions?!!?
  
  P.S. Remapping Escape to Caps Lock made vim usability to a 10 for me.
  
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- First time using Linux and in a job setting isn’t the time to get Vim’d, so yeah I dipped. Don’t judge too hard pls!
  
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  I am a professional linux sysadmin, and I don't use Vim. There is honestly no task you will ever do that will actually require familiarity with Vim. You can get by with Nano just fine.
  
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  I actually learned while writing docs for work because it was boring as fuck otherwise. Now I'm one of those people. Give it a shot if you want to spice up (and dramatically slow down at first) some tedious work for a bit.
  
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- it's literally the first result on Google
  
  Okay, how do I Google in vim?
  
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  step 1. alt
  step 2. tab
  
  alternately:
  step 1. switch VTs back to your desktop environment and Google it there
  
  if you're using vim without a GUI running at all (I hate embedded systems too):
  step 1. you still have your phone on you, right
  
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Off-topic: never unplug this way, it’s bad for your cable and potentially dangerous.

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- emgimneer rule
  
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  It’s got ground so it’s certified safe!
  
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  I wanted the rest of the song. I asked Bing to make it, sorry Copilot. I am not disappointed
  
  You heard there was a secret chord That you could use to meet the Lord 'Cause you don't care about power safety, do ya? You plugged it in without a thought And then you saw a bright blue spark And from your lips you screamed a loud "Hallelujah!"
  
  Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelu-u-u-u-jah
  
  Your room was dark, you smelled some smoke You realized you made a joke Of basic rules of electricity, didn't ya? You tried to find another plug But all you got was just a shrug And from your phone you heard a low "Hallelujah!"
  
  Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelu-u-u-u-jah
  
  You called the landlord right away He said he'd come and fix the fray But he would charge you extra for the labor, yeah You felt a pang of guilt and shame You knew you only had yourself to blame And from your wallet you let out a sigh "Hallelujah!"
  
  Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelu-u-u-u-jah
  
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- It's safer than losing your sanity to vim
  
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!q:

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- INCORRECT BUZZER
  
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  :q!
  
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lawful good: alias vim=nano

chaotic evil: alias nano=vim

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- If I typed vim and it opened nano I would start looking for people to kill
  
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- Setting vim to alias to nano seems just about as chaotic evil as making the VS Code icon take you to notepad.
  
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- I would detonate if someone chaotic evil’d me
  
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- I dunno, those both seem pretty chaotic evil to me.
  
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I develop only in vim, i find it way better that any modern gui.

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- VSCode with the VIM mode plugin is kind of the best of both worlds.
  
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  I dislike the graphical interface. Console helps me to be more productive.
  
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  Maybe it was just me, but I found VSCode's undo/redo vim trees (u/r) to be kind of awkward when compared to real vim.
  
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- Native vim? Or with an elaborate preference file?
  
  I personally have grown so accustomed to vim that if I have to ssh to a new (to me) server I would rather use stock vi (which in most systems is actually an alias for vim) to any other editor. But honestly I have made an alias for a script that ports over my elaborate vimrc file for every first login to a new server or instance lol. It makes me feel a little like a diva 💁💅
  
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  Vim with a minimal preference file, but sometimes vim only, i don't like vi cause it lacks syntax highlighting
  
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Quitting Vim is called 'escaping' because it was designed to be a trap and you've escaped. Congratulations to everyone who has.

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How to use Vim: 1- Don't use it. 2- Use Nano or Gedit lmao.

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- Until those are not available.
  
  This is a pisspoor attitude to have, just fire up vimtutor and you will know how to use it in no time.
  
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  Unless you're a sysadmin who deals with very obscure systems, you'll always have access to nano, so why bother?
  
  Vim elitists love to brag about how cool Vim is, but pretty much never properly elaborate. Why should I learn all those obscure commands to just edit some text? What's the point?
  
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- Why, just use notepad, they're just text editors.
  
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- genuinely a skill issue
  
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Who told you to add a job to your root crontab? Vim was just protecting you from yourself

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:x

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- :q!
  
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  ZZ
  
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I think someone else mentioned this but just run vimtutor in your command line for a pretty exhaustive tutorial.

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:q it's very easy. You could also just close the terminal window and easily escape that way.

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[CTRL][ALT][PrtSc]-K-S-U-B

or [ESC] :q!

YMMV

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Doesn't work with laptops.

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- It does, but it takes longer
  
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- Yeah it does, it just takes longer
  
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:killall -9 vim

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Type :q to exit.

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This is the way!

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