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    [–] RickRussell_CA 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    People can remember the Konami code but :-q-! is too difficult apparently.

    [–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Except it doesn't work because you're in edit mode.

    [–] RickRussell_CA 18 points 1 year ago

    Ahem, per the cartoon, the genie typed "vi", which leaves vi in command mode.

    As an emacs user, I'm ctrl-x ctrl-c with this conversation.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    After noticing that ctrl+c doesn't work he tried typing exit, which put him in edit mode.

    [–] kbotc 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Unless you are on a Mac, then ctrl is META, and META+c gets you to the place where you can :q!

    ESC is just too far to deal with when using vi.

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

    Don't try to use the terminal on Mac. Its not linux

    [–] kbotc 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    But it is UNIX, which Linux is not.

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

    Horray? Linux is the defaco standard and protected under gpl

    [–] kbotc 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Go ask Red Hat for their sources.

    EDIT: I’m a Linux Performance Engineer with 15 years under my belt and I use a Mac as my daily driver. Including when I gasp interface with Linux computers because it’s always a combination of ssh and configuration management of some form. Telling me that Mac users don’t use vim is, on its face, one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard. It’s a text based interface. I could do it with Windows, but I’m faster on Macs.

    [–] AffineConnection 5 points 1 year ago

    I have sent emails with ":w" on at least one occasion.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    Or just use nano and have a built in cheat sheet

    Edit: I just realized nano is the gen z text editor for Linux....

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

    I've used it before gen z was a thing, so no.

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

    Why do people just don't ESC :x? Do I miss something when not using q!?

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    :x also writes (same as :wq). :q! is force quit. If you accidentally made changes then :q will give an error and :x will write those changes. So :q! Is you safest bet if you need to gtfo.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    ZQ / ZZ ftw.

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

    Now that you write it... I use :q! all the time but I did not realize. I guess that is just muscle memory :-)

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Or ZZ, more simple and immediately after typing it you start hearing random ZZ Top song.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    Me hoping it's "Waiting for the Bus"

    Damn, "Legs" again.

    [–] RickRussell_CA 2 points 1 year ago

    Driving While Blind

    [–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    If you were about to type VirtualBox instead of Qemu or virt-manager, you deserved it!

    [–] orrk 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    HELP! HOW DO I EXIT VIM? i've been stuck here for months, had to create my own browser from scratch.

    [–] linearchaos 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The first time I got stuck in VI, cell phones didn't have internet yet. We were a one computer household. I had printed out some instructions on how to modify XF86 configs. I had tried typing out every version of [ESC] I could come up with.

    If it wouldn't have been for VI I would have been into Linux probably a decade earlier. It's now my editor of choice but it probably wouldn't have killed them to detect control x and give you a little hint text somewhere.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    it probably wouldn't have killed them

    It does pop a help message on CTRL C now. Also, Bram sadly died recently. Coincidence?

    [–] linearchaos 1 points 1 year ago

    ohh hell, never saw that before, nice!

    [–] AffineConnection 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    [ESC]:!pkill -9 ^vi

    [–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

    This joke was made ten thousand times but this version is not low effort. I appreciate it.

    [–] solidgrue 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I just can't quit making vi jokes

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] solidgrue 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I usually use vim so I guess technically it's 994 jokes.

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

    When you reboot your computer to exit a program.

    [–] MeanEYE 8 points 1 year ago

    This joke is so stale you could make penicillin out it.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

    Ah shit.. The trash comedy folks made it here after all

    [–] WhiteRice 7 points 1 year ago
    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    but what about the church of EMACs?

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    that's a different operating system

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

    Is he running his system from something like FAT to make executing VI do something useful?

    [–] agent_flounder 1 points 1 year ago

    Glad the genie could escape