this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2023
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Hit Esc then type "q!" <- how hard was that? Don't listen to the vimxit liars

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Don't forget the ':' before the q!, when you type ':' you enter command mode, the q command quits the file and putting an exclamation mark after the q doesn't save the file and forces the file to be closed

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

Or if you want to text edit in hardcore mode, only use :x to exit. For after you've gotten used to vim and want to bring back some of the challenge.

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

Ok, I may have forgotten about the ":" but I stand by the rest, if you can't remember how to do a qw, then you can't be trusted to write to a file.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So you can’t be trusted to write a file.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Thanks for being honest. I’ll ask someone else when I need to write a file.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

In the end linux is about choice, if you don't want to remember the commands to edit with vim, there are text editors like nano or some kind of notepad program from your DE

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Open a new terminal and type sudo killall vim

[–] msage 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reject modernity, return to having a single 120v power switch on the front of the computer!

[–] msage 4 points 1 year ago

There was a post about custom PC starting switches, and one built a gong starter. Now that would be a boss reboot.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I'm very close to just editing that comment

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

'ZZ' you heathen