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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

:q! is for quicksave

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

I'm sorry, I have to take your first answer.

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

Better hope you set undofile and undodir is writable.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just :wq there won't be any doubts.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

ZZ whatever

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My muscle memory is too strong from years of vscode before vim so I have :w mapped to C-s

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

This is Vim's evil mode

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I have the opposite situation, I had to willingly stop myself from typing :w while using Word. And I installed the vim extension in vscode, which leads to me typing :w when using someone else's setup.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I still get lots of jkhl after some lines when I'm trying to move between lines

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

Hissss we're enemies

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Question: why does nobody else save and exit with ":x" or ":x!"?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Lots of people don’t know. Just like ctrl+r to substring search your command history in bash.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I seriously pity people who don't know ctrl+r that is one of the most important tools for productivity on the cli.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And you can hook in fzf to it to get a proper list of previous commands all fuzzy matched!! Oh-my-zsh just requires adding fzf to your plugins list (:

I survived for years with just https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions which is similarly great, but fills a slightly different role. Just start typing and you'll see a faded preview of the most recent command matching & u ctrl+f to autocomplete it. Is gr8

e: clarified what zsh-autosuggest does

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

I’ve found it’s a bit overrated honestly. Usually, I also need the commands before and after something, so I use history | grep -B N cmd instead

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

ctrl+r to WHAT

IM SO FUCKING PISSED OFF RIGHT NOW

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

LOL. I had the same reaction when I found out a decade ago.

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

I just got moved to a new team, and my new team lead up arrow spams. I was about to tell him about ctrl-r, but he found his command, and I'm awkward, so I didn't say anything. Maybe next time.

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

I guess by the time I came across :x, :wq was already too ingrained to bother switching.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No specific reason, but I'd rather be deep in the cold, cold ground before I quit with ":x" instead of ":wq".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

But... But :x is superior because it doesn't overwrite unchanged files with a new modified date :(

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

Whoa. I’ve been doing :wq for like 25 years and never new about :x.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It's such an awkward letter to reach, also I'm stuck in my ways leave me alone

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

I keep asking this everytime I see an exit vim meme and everyone is recommending :wq

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

What am I, a farmer? /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is the way

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They look so lonely. Why not make them kiss?

:W

:M

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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:wq

*many other tabs still open *

:qa

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Hahaha, same!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

:wq and re-evaluate my lif- oh wait, I forgot to call the function

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

:wa like a boss

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

The centipede operator