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

Same here. But I found sdf which seems super cool. Maybe I'll actually learn more than five vim commands now

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

@plumbercraic @lemmyworld But can you exit vim? That's the real question😁

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

Sure thing - ctrl a, c, PS l grep vim, kill - 9 pid

Or something πŸ™ƒ

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

[esc]: !sudo kill -9 $(pgrep vim)

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

You just summed up my last 30 years of Linux. To be completely honest I knew vaguely of it but I've never used it before. My first inclination was to use killall, but something about its force command isn't quite -9 and it refused to terminate the parent application.