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    I wish :q! (lemmy.ml)
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    [–] orrk@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

    [–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 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.

    [–] Morphit@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

    it probably wouldn't have killed them

    It does pop a help message on CTRL C now. Also, Bram sadly died recently. Coincidence?

    [–] AffineConnection@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    give you a little hint text somewhere

    At least it's not ed: ?

    [–] AffineConnection@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    [ESC]:!pkill -9 ^vi