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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2023 01:07:13 JST nixCraft 🐧

   User: I accidentally opened vim. How do you even quit this thing?

   me: that's their adoption strategy. it's Hotel California of text editors

   • Miguel Colom (mcolom@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2023 01:12:46 JST Miguel Colom

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     @nixCraft you need to unplug the computer from the wall and do a killall vi. In this order. It's possible that vim survives, be prepared.

   • Curtis McHale (curtismchale@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2023 01:14:30 JST Curtis McHale

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     @nixCraft Haha...the first number of times I followed a tutorial that said "type vim $file" I then had to quit terminal because I had no idea how to save the file as instructed in the next step.

   • Yrjänä Rankka 🌻 (ghard@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2023 01:38:37 JST Yrjänä Rankka 🌻

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     @nixCraft ^z killall -9 vim

   • den77 (den77@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2023 01:48:33 JST den77

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     @nixCraft you can't until you finish your work.

   • Polynomial_C (polynomial_c@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2023 01:52:45 JST Polynomial_C

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     @nixCraft

   • HoracioDos (horaciodos@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2023 06:14:58 JST HoracioDos

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     @nixCraft LOL!😀

   • Nathan A. Stine (stinerman@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2023 06:37:25 JST Nathan A. Stine

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     @nixCraft vi has nothing on ed.

   • Martin (thatfrogue@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2023 16:21:01 JST Martin

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     @nixCraft if anyone actually needs the answer: press esc then type :zz to save changes then quit, or :q! to exit without saving changes and suppress any warnings.

   • eons Luna (eonity@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 11:19:11 JST eons Luna

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     @nixCraft Having messed around with vim while trying to edit config files on my Ubuntu on WSL install, I can attest to just how much of a user interface nightmare it is.

     I definitely have had to quit the entire Terminal app just to get out of vim before, lol.

   • Marty (matusguy@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Sep-2023 07:23:00 JST Marty

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     @nixCraft everybody complaining how to quit vim... how does one quit ed????

   • moashy_mango (moashy_mango@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 16:12:48 JST moashy_mango

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     @nixCraft Vim is also preinstalled on macOS as well