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

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

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

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

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

    But it is UNIX, which Linux is not.

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

    Horray? Linux is the defaco standard and protected under gpl

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

    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.