If they don't understand this, can we even call it intelligent life?
this post was submitted on 05 Dec 2023
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Maybe they use Emacs.
Bonus: I googled "emacs" to make sure I got the capitalization right for the post and Google is throwing shade:
Google does the opposite of "vi". Some people just like to watch the world burn.
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Maybe it's time to stop using GOOG
duck.com
oof
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I just shoot myself whenever I want to leave vim
You don't need to be so drastic just shut down the electricity by the main switch
I rent a place where I don't have direct access to the main switch, so what I do is I just stop paying utilities until Vim closes :)
Or just shoot the main switch if you at least have a line of sight on it
you can just unplug your pc: and that way you won't incur downtime for the rest of the house.
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wrong: you press esc multiple times to make sure you are in normal mode.
At least 3 times. 5 to make sure.
sudo nano
You shouldn't really use editor with sudo, but instead use sudoedit to edit files restricted to root user
SUDO_EDITOR=nano sudoedit /etc/fstab
This accomplishes the same function while running the text editor as unprivileged user
Why?
Files from user: nano
Files from root: sudo nano
Files from another user: sudo nano (and if new sudo chown after)... 😂
Never had any problems with this in over 10 years... 😅😂
Doing sudo nano will not load your user configuration, sudoedit will. I had plenty of problems with this, but I assume you don't have any custom configuration.
One reason why sometime I don't do sudoedit is that I make a lot of changes to the config/restart service/see it works/edit etc.. sudoedit only write to the file when exiting, so that flow won't work...
for example when having adding a new host on nginx and some configuration and see if everything work (sudo vim/systemc nginx restart/curl https:// domain loop)
but yeah in general i'll just use sudoedit (which alias to se for me) for my root editing
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Alternatively you could use my favorite approach, Visual Studio Code. Just open the file with it, edit it and upon saving you will be promoted if the file needs admin rights to save.
Okay but how can I show how good I am with shortcuts to edit legacy software ?
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until the moment you realize that somehow you are not on your native keyboard layout and where the hell is : and ! in this weird language??!
ESC Z Z
I have done this too many times now lol, you'd think I would have learned
ESC Z Z
Although I usually bang ESC a few times to
make sure i’m back to command mode
Double Z's will save and then exit. The command on until board will exit without saving changes.
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Great, now all my changes are lost. Thank you very much!
Your welcome!
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Yanks power cord
Ctrl-z
ps
kill -9 pid
fg
Alternative:
Ctrl-z
kill -9 %1 # Shell keeps track of job pids for you, job 1 is %1, job 2 is %2, etc
fg # Not technically necessary, but it's fun to see the corpseOk ok, I know it's a meme, but gentle reminder that :x is :w and :q combined (save and exit). I got taught that in high school (it was a dec unix with real vt120 terminals) and luckily for me I remembered that even if I didn't touch vi for a few years afterwards.
Funnily enough, I knew of :x before :w.
What is this sorcery?! I thought you had to reboot each time to exit.
That's only if you don't want to save first (ahem write the buffer).
Odds are if you don't know how to exit vim you probably don't want to save whatever you wrote in there.
Who in there right mind would want to save a bunch of gibberish
ihh splqqiq:wq
Wear your mistakes proudlyq!
META-C :wq!
ESC is all the way over there and my hand is already on the space bar.
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