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[–] 39 points 3 years ago (19 children)

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

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  • [–] 24 points 3 years ago (15 children)

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

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (4 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.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    But it is UNIX, which Linux is not.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Horray? Linux is the defaco standard and protected under gpl

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years 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.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago* (6 children)
  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    :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.

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  • [–] 31 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

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

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  • [–] 29 points 3 years ago (6 children)

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

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    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.

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    [–] 17 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I just can't quit making vi jokes

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago

    When you reboot your computer to exit a program.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    This joke is so stale you could make penicillin out it.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    Ah shit.. The trash comedy folks made it here after all

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    [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    but what about the church of EMACs?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Is he running his system from something like FAT to make executing VI do something useful?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Glad the genie could escape

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