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I'm trying out Obsidian for taking notes, and this made me laugh.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago (2 children)

nano gang checking in.

However, I’ve been forced over time to remember “:wq” to get unstuck should vim randomly appear.

[–] dukk 14 points 11 months ago

Alternatively, you can save a key and use :x (And :q! to quit without saving)

Yeah, that’s such a Vim user thing to say :P

[–] PoolloverNathan 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

:up|cq to save a write cycle and signal an error to whatever opened Vim.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

20 years of software engineering and you too will have a 10-20% chance of knowing how to exit vim.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I’ve done 35 years, but the first 25 years on the dark side M$.