I was introduced to Linux with Vim so it's actually Nano that confuses me...
this post was submitted on 28 May 2024
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The good thing about nano is that it has clear instructions for how to close it right there immediately in front of you
Not if aren't familiar with control characters. Might was well be three seashells...
Bought a new computer, threw the old one out.
The Apple approved way of exiting vim
That's an easy fix. I had to burn my house down
We're dangerously close to revealing the real reason I keep trying new operating systems...
From the torrent, the deluge, the unending tidal wave of this exact meme in various formats. The "exit vim difficult" meme must constitute at least 50% of online content regarding *nix and *nix-adjacent systems. It is so stale that Slackware considers it outdated. It is the "mayonnaise is spicy" equivalent of funny. It is the white bread, picket fence stereotype of meme culture, yes offense. I'd like to say that it's beating a dead horse, but the horse is gone; its flesh has been tenderized, pulverized, and evaporated from the sum total of energy imparted by the constant beating. If the heat death of the universe were to happen tomorrow, and from the uniform vacuum energy a Boltzmann brain were to spontaneously form, it will have been already tired of this meme.
But to answer the question, it was either that, or the big
type :q<Enter> to exit
splash that appears when I open it with an empty buffer, and following its instructions.
No offense to you or your house, but I'm really tired of this meme.
splash that appears when I open it with an empty buffer, and following its instructions.
That's the key to the problem, I have almost never open vim with an empty buffer, almost only used it to open files directly. Since there is no nice splash screen telling you how to exit when you use vi <your_file>, this meme happens.