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Kerb @discuss.tchncs.de

1y ago

ways to close vim

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Unplug the computer
Shut the house electric safety switch down
Cut the electricity pole nearest to the house
Bomb the nearest electricity distribution post
- nuke it from orbit. it's the only way to be sure.
- Wait for a sufficiently powerful coronal mass ejection to collapse the global electric grid
- "Simple and easily explained."
  
  Pretty sure I can learn my grandma to put a fork in any socket to close Vim, no prior knowledge needed

you can close vim?
- "this is my life now"

Does colon-capital-Q-exclamation mark even work? I'm pretty sure it's only lower case q.
- its supposed to be lowercase,
  but imgflip put the entire text in uppercase.
  
  Honestly, the joke landed anyway. I've done numerous uppercase-Q trying to quit, because I didn't let go of Shift fast enough after typing the colon...
- Was going to say this, myself.

cat /dev/zero > "/proc/$(pidof vim)/mem" is my favorite dumb way. Clear its memory, wait for the segfault.
- ...you can write to program memory? Idk how exactly but that feels like a security risk.
  
  It's your process, why shouldn't you be able to write to it? Vi is certainly doing it...
- dumb way.
  Get fancy, add progress bar: pv < /dev/zero > "/proc/$(pidof vim)/mem"

Amateur. Just unplug the power cable.

Open vim.
Accept vim is the OS now.

ctrl-S instinctively from windows then panic when the terminal pauses and isnt accepting input so you restart the computer.
- Fuck, are you me?

One panel below: shut down the computer

ctrl-z
kill %1
- holy crap,
  that's exactly what i wanted the last command to do.
  i just didn't know you can target jobs,
  and settled with quitting the shell instead
  
  yeah it's my favorite way to exit Vim. I post it every time I get a chance lol https://gekinzuku.com/comment/202790

There's a whole repo of possible methods: https://github.com/hakluke/how-to-exit-vim

M-! pkill -9 vim

ZZ will save file though, the others won't. You meant ZQ.

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Alt+PrtScn o

Does unplugging the machine not work?
- I call my local energy provider and simply cancel my contract with immediate effect.

til shift-z shift-z. am I stupid

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Ctrl + T + alt
sudo reboot

try...
:x
it will save your changes and exit vim If there are no changes to the then it just exits vim.

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