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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by chraebsli to c/programmer_humor
 
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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm too used to nano, switching for micro for a while I was constantly using nano key combos and making a mess of things.

Stockholm syndrome from key combos lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would just be a bit funny since sensible keybindings was one of the reasons I originally switched. Turns out I had already used nano too long for me to actually want that feature hah.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Haha very true, if micro was the default, many people coming from common GUI apps would be like “okay, ctrl z to undo” and “ctrl s to save” “wow, it actually worked”

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

Absolutely. It would make sense as the default instead of nano (or vim of all things). Would help those who are just starting with Linux.

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

Def! I sort of wish the RFC committee would push standards for smart cross-platform shortcuts. Of course people with muscle memory in a different standard should be able to change for their usage, but even GUI apps like vscode, sublime text, IntelliJ, etc could benefit from standardization there

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Vim user here. The only way to exit vim is to pray to the Vim gods and sacrifice your first born, hoping that they'll cause a cosmic ray to hit the right spot in the memory to flip the right bit that causes it to exit. There are no alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I usually just power-cycle the machine

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

easy mnemonic to quit vim: imagine you're captain Picard in the middle of typing ":3" when Q shows up

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

Or, hear me out, : because you're doing a command, and then q for quit. Probably make it wq too, to write and quit

[–] chraebsli 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

did you know there is a vim tutor for learning how to vim?

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

vimtutor, which I believe is installed with vim by default

Edit: My brain apparently inserted an extra word that made it seem like you were seeking said program. Leaving it though for those wondering in the future.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Forgot

Escape first, because it wants to keep you inside the matrix and you need to tell it you are trying to escape

q!

Because you probably don’t want to save whatever you’ve accidentally done to that file trying to quit, and you have to add an exclamation point because unless you yell loudly at vim it won’t listen

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

No, that doesn't make any sense. We need something convoluted so that people don't remember it next time it's needed.

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

That's one too many letters. Need to use x for maximum efficiency gains.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Just because this is a vim meme, does anyone know how to copy text from one instance of vim to the other?

[–] embed_me 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You can yank text to system clipboard buffer ie +. Then paste (put) from the clipboard to any other vim process.

Keep in mind you should have clipboard support in your vim. If you're on ubuntu, install vim-gtk and you should be good

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just use a single instance of Emacs to edit everything everywhere all at once. You can even use vim keybindings if you have no taste.

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

Install xclip then press "+y (double-quote plus-sign y) to yank to system clipboard then "+p to put from sys clipboard

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

Fuck it, use neovim and copy to the system clipboard.

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

I think you can just use y and p

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

Instance of Vim? Swap buffers fool

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

Would this work if one of those instances was in a VM?

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[–] snaggen 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have been a vim user for more than 20 years. I tried to quit for a couple of years, but now I have just accepted my faith.

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

Vim enthusiasts are just people with late stage Stockholm syndrome

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there any playlist that wouldn’t be improved by adding Cat by C418 at the end?

[–] chraebsli 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

there aren't.

& most people don't even know what/ who C418 is...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

He was that guy working on the music for that 0x10c game, right?

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

Pour one out for 0x10c

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

most people don't even know what/ who C418 is...

most people would recognise his songs though...

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[–] autokludge 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why do you want to exit? Just :terminal

[–] chraebsli 5 points 1 year ago

RIP to people who never shutdown or restart their PCs

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I have a few more suggestions:

  • JACKBOYS - WHAT TO DO?
  • Travis Scott - LOST FOREVER
  • Travis Scott - Impossible
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Less is more, or rather, more is less

[–] chraebsli 11 points 1 year ago

less really is more with more features. and more IS less with less features

[–] LinearArray 8 points 1 year ago

Someone finally exited vim

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

Funny story. After you start you can't go back. What is a nano?

Edit: If ctrl-z doesn't get you out of vim you need to install another terminal or more likely just ditch your distro altogether.

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

It's really not that hard v.v Caring to learn all' the shenans, that's the hard part. Same goes for Emacs. Archaic interfaces for the sake of archaism or "cool cred," I say 🤷

Edit: Also haha the joke is funny :P

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

Nano >>> vim

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

Nuka Cola is better

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

Sudo visudo is always a struggle

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