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[-] [email protected] 55 points 2 years ago

If they don't understand this, can we even call it intelligent life?

[-] [email protected] 63 points 2 years ago

Maybe they use Emacs.

Bonus: I googled "emacs" to make sure I got the capitalization right for the post and Google is throwing shade:

[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago

Google does the opposite of "vi". Some people just like to watch the world burn.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I misread "the world bum"

The term "keming" is sometimes used informally to refer to poor kerning (the letters r and n placed too close together being easily mistaken for the letter m).

Wikipedia: Kerning

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

It’s the other way around, too.

Not as true though.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Maybe it's time to stop using GOOG

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[-] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago

I just shoot myself whenever I want to leave vim

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

You don't need to be so drastic just shut down the electricity by the main switch

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

I rent a place where I don't have direct access to the main switch, so what I do is I just stop paying utilities until Vim closes :)

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Or just shoot the main switch if you at least have a line of sight on it

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

you can just unplug your pc: and that way you won't incur downtime for the rest of the house.

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[-] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago

wrong: you press esc multiple times to make sure you are in normal mode.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

At least 3 times. 5 to make sure.

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago

You shouldn't really use editor with sudo, but instead use sudoedit to edit files restricted to root user

SUDO_EDITOR=nano sudoedit /etc/fstab

This accomplishes the same function while running the text editor as unprivileged user

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Why?

Files from user: nano

Files from root: sudo nano

Files from another user: sudo nano (and if new sudo chown after)... πŸ˜‚

Never had any problems with this in over 10 years... πŸ˜…πŸ˜‚

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Doing sudo nano will not load your user configuration, sudoedit will. I had plenty of problems with this, but I assume you don't have any custom configuration.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

One reason why sometime I don't do sudoedit is that I make a lot of changes to the config/restart service/see it works/edit etc.. sudoedit only write to the file when exiting, so that flow won't work...

for example when having adding a new host on nginx and some configuration and see if everything work (sudo vim/systemc nginx restart/curl https:// domain loop)

but yeah in general i'll just use sudoedit (which alias to se for me) for my root editing

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Alternatively you could use my favorite approach, Visual Studio Code. Just open the file with it, edit it and upon saving you will be promoted if the file needs admin rights to save.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Okay but how can I show how good I am with shortcuts to edit legacy software ?

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

until the moment you realize that somehow you are not on your native keyboard layout and where the hell is : and ! in this weird language??!

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I have done this too many times now lol, you'd think I would have learned

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

"I use Arch Linux btw"

*doesn't know how to use vim

Pottery

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

ESC Z Z

Although I usually bang ESC a few times to
make sure i’m back to command mode

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago
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[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Double Z's will save and then exit. The command on until board will exit without saving changes.

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago
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Great, now all my changes are lost. Thank you very much!

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Your welcome!

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Alternative:

Ctrl-z  
kill -9 %1   # Shell keeps track of job pids for you, job 1 is %1, job 2 is %2, etc
fg  # Not technically necessary, but it's fun to see the corpse
[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Ok ok, I know it's a meme, but gentle reminder that :x is :w and :q combined (save and exit). I got taught that in high school (it was a dec unix with real vt120 terminals) and luckily for me I remembered that even if I didn't touch vi for a few years afterwards.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Funnily enough, I knew of :x before :w.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

i think you mean ctrl s and ctrl x

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

What is this sorcery?! I thought you had to reboot each time to exit.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

META-C :wq!

ESC is all the way over there and my hand is already on the space bar.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

That's only if you don't want to save first (ahem write the buffer).

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Odds are if you don't know how to exit vim you probably don't want to save whatever you wrote in there.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Who in there right mind would want to save a bunch of gibberish

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

ihh splqqiq:wq

Wear your mistakes proudlyq!

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