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linuxmemes @lemmy.world Possibly linux @lemmy.zip 1y ago

Just a PSA

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If they don't understand this, can we even call it intelligent life?
- Maybe they use Emacs.
  
  Bonus: I googled "emacs" to make sure I got the capitalization right for the post and Google is throwing shade:
  
  Google does the opposite of "vi". Some people just like to watch the world burn.
  
  Nano forever!
  
  Holy shit lmao
  
  Maybe it's time to stop using GOOG
  
  oof
  
  duck.com
  
  I don't know how people get this. I tried but it didn't do this.
  
  Maybe they use Emacs.
  
  Exactly
  
  Just capitalize it EMACS and people will think you're more senior than in reality
  
  Well, then my point still stands.
  Jk, don't hurt me please!
- Truth
I just shoot myself whenever I want to leave vim
- You don't need to be so drastic just shut down the electricity by the main switch
  
  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 :)
  
  you can just unplug your pc: and that way you won't incur downtime for the rest of the house.
- You haven't shot yourself yet though so you're still in vim
  
  You don't know!
wrong: you press esc multiple times to make sure you are in normal mode.
- At least 3 times. 5 to make sure.
sudo nano
- 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
  
  Why?
  
  Files from user: nano
  
  Files from root: sudo nano
  
  Files from another user: sudo nano (and if new sudo chown after)... 😂
  
  Never had any problems with this in over 10 years... 😅😂
  
  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.
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??!
- ESC Z Z
- I have done this too many times now lol, you'd think I would have learned
"I use Arch Linux btw"

*doesn't know how to use vim

Pottery
- Hey!
ESC Z Z

Although I usually bang ESC a few times to
make sure i’m back to command mode
- you mean normal mode?
  
  Yes, I do.
- Double Z's will save and then exit. The command on until board will exit without saving changes.
  
  yeah to exit without saving you do ZQ instead of ZZ
- Shouldn't be Z Z esc ? Because, you know ZZ top.
Yanks power cord
Great, now all my changes are lost. Thank you very much!
- Your welcome!
- wq
  
  Thanks Sherlock.
Ctrl-z

ps

kill -9 pid

fg
- 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
- killall vim
  
  Reminds me of the time I brought down a whole AIX server with the killall command back in the 1990s.
  
  On AIX killall really means kill every single process.
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.
- Funnily enough, I knew of :x before :w.
i think you mean ctrl s and ctrl x
- That didn't work
- Still on it!? Are you, people, immortal? =)
  
  nano is forever
What is this sorcery?! I thought you had to reboot each time to exit.
META-C :wq!

ESC is all the way over there and my hand is already on the space bar.
- Especially as a Dvorak user CTRL-C is effortless. Reaching for ESC makes zero sense!
- Not if you swapped the caps lock with ESC.
- ALT-: wq!
  
  Saved you a keypress
That's only if you don't want to save first (ahem write the buffer).
- Odds are if you don't know how to exit vim you probably don't want to save whatever you wrote in there.
- Who in there right mind would want to save a bunch of gibberish
  
  ihh splqqiq:wq
  
  Wear your mistakes proudlyq!
Joke's on them I'm using Emacs as an OS so when I want to exit vi I just C-a M-exit C-r C-y.
But I don't want to stop.
- Oh no....
I prefer ctrl-[ instead of escape
- That's the first one i've learned to use and I have a hard time actually using the escape key. it's just so out of the way
  
  it's just so out of the way
  
  That's why you rebind caps to:
  
  hold = ctrl
  
  tap = ESC
  
  Kmonad is my favourite tool for this, but there are other options.
  
  Bonus: rebind hold ret to ctrl and you can C-[ with one hand, and it makes navigation a lot easier if you can't palm ctrl
ZQ
[ESC] wq
ZZ
From phone: ssh user@server killall vim

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