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    [–] [email protected] 65 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    I feel like the images should be switched.

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    [–] [email protected] 50 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    If you wanna save changes: :wq

    If not: :q!

    Else: :SpanishInquisition

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

    Hmm, I didn't expect that last one.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Why do so many people prefer :wq over :x?

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

    Cause I don't like to think about my x

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    [–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

    I prefer the extremely intuitive:

    [C-R]=system("grep -P "PPid:\t(\d+)" /proc/$$/status | cut -f2 | xargs kill -9")

    or

    i:!grep -P "PPid:\t(\d+)" /proc/$$/status | cut -f2 | xargs kill -9[esc]Y:@"[cr]

    It just rolls off the fingers, doesn't it?

    Edit: damn it lemmy didn't like my meme because it assumes that characters between angle brackets are html tags :( you ruined it lemmy

    EDIT 2: rewrote it, just assume that square brackets are buttons not characters

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    [–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    I always get annoyed when I'm on some system and nano pops up and I need to figure out how to kill that thing.

    [–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    Nano literally tells you all the shortcuts to your face.

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    [–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

    Same. As a vim user I now can't quit nano.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    Very intuitive - Ctrl + X... unlike vim.

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    Why is Ctrl-X intuitive? Shouldn't it be Ctrl-Q (for "quit")?

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (4 children)
    [–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    In most apps, Ctrl-X means "cut", not "quit". Especially when it's a freakin' text editor!

    I will grant you that it's more intuitive than vi, but that is a very, very low bar.

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    [–] doctorn 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    There's a button to exit vim on your pc. Just hold it 7 seconds and vim is closed. 😅

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

    it's right next to the turbo button

    [–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    you don't need the ! when you have the w, because your changes already get saved.

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

    If anything it is dangerous as it will still exit even if changes cannot be saved.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Try editing a file in /etc as a regular user. It happens sometimes and you really want that warning that the write failed.

    Anyway, :x is superior. It only writes if there are changes. So, your mtime doesn't change unnecessarily.

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    [–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    :ggdGwq (please don't do this)

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    VIM Golf.... Same outcome, fewer strokes:

    %d|wq

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    you can replace wq with x

    :%d|x

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

    Only in Vim, not in Vi.

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    I use Vim daily, and i have absolutely no clue what that command would do, what would it do? Delete the document, save and quit?

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

    exactly.

    gg -> go to top of document

    d -> delete (actually, it's cut, but it destroys the mnemonic)

    G -> here is a modifier to "d" and tells it do "delete until end of document"

    w -> write current state of buffer to disk

    q -> exit program

    [–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Actually not, binds and commands aren't the same. ggdG only works as a series of inputs, while wq only works as a command (with the colon).

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Exactly. The colon needs to be just before the w, not at the front of the sequence...

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    And while you're at it, throw an ESC in there at the beginning, will ya?

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    [–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

    E492: Not an editor command: ggdGwq

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    [–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (6 children)
    [–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    And then sudo apt install nano

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    [–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

    I love how in the comments on even the most basic vim meme I learn something new

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