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    [–] Agent641@lemmy.world 97 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    When will the EU force Vim to let users out?

    [–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 16 points 11 months ago (4 children)

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

    [–] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 11 months 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

    [–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months 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.

    [–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months 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.

    [–] Thaurin@lemmy.ml 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

    [–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)
    [–] Thaurin@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago

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

    [–] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 months 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

    [–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    Open a new terminal and type sudo killall vim

    [–] msage@programming.dev 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)
    [–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

    [–] msage@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago

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

    [–] badbytes@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)
    [–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago

    I'm very close to just editing that comment

    [–] Hominine@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

    'ZZ' you heathen