c/linuxmemes · by pacogens@lemmy.ml · 2y

I wish :q!

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37 Comments

RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 2y (19 replies)

People can remember the Konami code but :-q-! is too difficult apparently.

rovingnothing29@kbin.social · 24 pts · 2y (15 replies)

Except it doesn't work because you're in edit mode.

RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2y

Ahem, per the cartoon, the genie typed "vi", which leaves vi in command mode.

As an emacs user, I'm ctrl-x ctrl-c with this conversation.

freundTech@feddit.de · 7 pts · 2y (5 replies)

After noticing that ctrl+c doesn't work he tried typing exit, which put him in edit mode.

kbotc@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (4 replies)

Unless you are on a Mac, then ctrl is META, and META+c gets you to the place where you can :q!

ESC is just too far to deal with when using vi.

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Don't try to use the terminal on Mac. Its not linux

kbotc@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (2 replies)

But it is UNIX, which Linux is not.

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Horray? Linux is the defaco standard and protected under gpl

kbotc@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Go ask Red Hat for their sources.

EDIT: I’m a Linux Performance Engineer with 15 years under my belt and I use a Mac as my daily driver. Including when I gasp interface with Linux computers because it’s always a combination of ssh and configuration management of some form. Telling me that Mac users don’t use vim is, on its face, one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard. It’s a text based interface. I could do it with Windows, but I’m faster on Macs.

AffineConnection@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

I have sent emails with ":w" on at least one occasion.

BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tf · 2 pts · 2y (6 replies)

Esc, then :q-t

Clusterfck@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Or just use nano and have a built in cheat sheet

Edit: I just realized nano is the gen z text editor for Linux....

rikudou@lemmings.world · 6 pts · 2y

I've used it before gen z was a thing, so no.

buedi@feddit.de · 2 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Why do people just don't ESC :x? Do I miss something when not using q!?

forwardvoid@feddit.nl · 5 pts · 2y (2 replies)

:x also writes (same as :wq). :q! is force quit. If you accidentally made changes then :q will give an error and :x will write those changes. So :q! Is you safest bet if you need to gtfo.

Morphit@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 2y

ZQ / ZZ ftw.

buedi@feddit.de · 1 pts · 2y

Now that you write it... I use :q! all the time but I did not realize. I guess that is just muscle memory :-)

starman@programming.dev · 4 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Or ZZ, more simple and immediately after typing it you start hearing random ZZ Top song.

RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Driving While Blind

swab148@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y

Me hoping it's "Waiting for the Bus"

Damn, "Legs" again.

wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works · 31 pts · 2y

If you were about to type VirtualBox instead of Qemu or virt-manager, you deserved it!

orrk@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 2y (6 replies)

HELP! HOW DO I EXIT VIM? i've been stuck here for months, had to create my own browser from scratch.

linearchaos@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y (3 replies)

The first time I got stuck in VI, cell phones didn't have internet yet. We were a one computer household. I had printed out some instructions on how to modify XF86 configs. I had tried typing out every version of [ESC] I could come up with.

If it wouldn't have been for VI I would have been into Linux probably a decade earlier. It's now my editor of choice but it probably wouldn't have killed them to detect control x and give you a little hint text somewhere.

Morphit@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)