:q!
You wouldn't want to ruin your file by accidentally saving your random flailing.
18A: you're wrong, Vim over Emacs every day of the week and twice on Sundays.
B: what's so damned hard about alt+f4, open up Google, spend the next two weeks googling Vim lessons and Vim tutors and reading length articles about vim commands, and then finally coming back to Vim just to type :wq?
17You can run vim inside of emacs therefore emacs > vim
4You can also browse web in emacs.
emacs > chrome
emacs > firefox4
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12tbh I started with VS Code, and now I can't go back from neovim. The key motions are just too good.
10VSCode with vim extension.
Move cursor with HJKL — right hand never has to leave home row.
Trackpad on the left side of the keyboard for smooth and RSI-free scrolling.
This is the way.
5So how do you move your cursor?
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Vim users entering a hadouken, a mortal kombat fatality, and their social security number to do simple tasks (much easier than pressing the function keys (take up too much space) or clicking a menu (GUI bad)).
11VIM master race
7I prefer emacs too, but:
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Emacs's
C-x C-cisn't likely any more able to leverage knowledge from other environments than vi's:wq. I guess you could be using a graphical version of emacs and use the menus. -
On my system, current versions of vim do appear, by default, to show a screen telling you how to quit. A test of
emacs -Qto bring up a default emacs environment in a terminal environment doesn't appear to do that. It instead directs you to the "C-h C-aabout emacs page", which isn't likely to help beginners. It probably should at least reference the top-level help atC-h C-hor the tutorial atC-h C-t. -
There are text-mode menus in emacs, but I normally use emacs in the terminal with the menus hidden and don't use them.
F10will cause them to drop down, but I'm not sure how intuitive that is. looks further Okay, usingemacs -Qto test a vanilla environment, it does look like the menus are visible by default in the terminal. If you're in an environment with mouse support enabled - it looks likegpmin a Linux console works, but curiously-enough, it doesn't seem to work inurxvt,xterm, orgnome-terminalfor me -- but at least in some terminal environments, you can use the mouse to operate the terminal-mode menus, so I guess ease-of-use point for emacs there.
EDIT: It does look like there's a GTK-based
vimthat has graphical menus these days, sovimcan probably do the menu thing too, but at least on my system, when I launch it, I get a regular terminal vim instance.7-
Am I the only one who uses :x?
5I use it
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Nano>everything. Fight me.
5Real ones just pipe an echo to a file and use sed for whatever else that can’t do
4If I can help it, I'm not editing more than a few lines in terminal. Definitely using nano if I am doing something in terminal though
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This is why real ones use Emacs as their web browser, window manager, note taker, terminal emulator, and file manager. Oh also you can use it to edit text Emacs truly is the best
4:x to save and quit. :q to quit. :q! To save and not quit.
4👁️👄👁️ not quite
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Emacs is one of the better desktop environments I’ve used. I just wish it had a good text editor.
4it becomes kinda usable with evil mode
6I fully agree, I used doom emacs for a year before going back to vim. I loved it, but after a lot of thinking I realized that I was getting too distracted by its many shiny features and that I was only using it for the vim bindings, therefore everything else is bloat.
I would never be upset using doom emacs, which is significantly more than I could say about other editors/ides.
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Shift+ZZ will save the file if it's been modified and then close Vim.
4broke:
:wqwoke:
ZZ3asleep: zzzz hooonk mimimi
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I learned vim first, and I genuinely have no idea how to use the user friendly editors like nano or whatever. I'm not a developer, but I know how to :wq.
3This is not the way
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