How to Exit Vim • Hacker News Board

Re: How to Exit Vim

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Post by acje » Wed, Jan 08, 2020, 8:21 AM UTC

From the readme: "Remotely:

$ while true; do curl http://vi-host:8888/kill-vi-$RANDOM; done vi will eventually exit"

Bold claim, and how would you know? What if there is a network partition preventing you from getting the message that exiting vi failed and Chuck Norris?

Re: How to Exit Vim

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Post by cynwoody » Wed, Jan 08, 2020, 8:21 AM UTC

I just do ZZ, if I want to save the buffer, or ZQ if I was just looking, or I messed up (I'm a vim newbie).

Re: How to Exit Vim

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Post by z92 » Wed, Jan 08, 2020, 8:24 AM UTC

This one is the shortest way in the list :

The test driven development way

:echom test_null_list()

And it works. Just checked.

Re: How to Exit Vim

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Post by pantulis » Wed, Jan 08, 2020, 8:26 AM UTC

DonHopkins wrote: post #13

The only vi command I know is :q! (That and the Rogue navigation keys.)

Bonus geezer points for calling them Rogue navigation keys instead of NetHack navigation keys.

Re: How to Exit Vim

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Post by suprfnk » Wed, Jan 08, 2020, 8:29 AM UTC

cynwoody wrote: post #22

I just do ZZ, if I want to save the buffer, or ZQ if I was just looking, or I messed up (I'm a vim newbie).

This page is satire. :)

Re: How to Exit Vim

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Post by raverbashing » Wed, Jan 08, 2020, 8:29 AM UTC

Use nvim, press Ctrl-C and it will show the corresponding help message

Re: How to Exit Vim

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Post by CGamesPlay » Wed, Jan 08, 2020, 8:31 AM UTC

raverbashing wrote: post #26

Use nvim, press Ctrl-C and it will show the corresponding help message

It is not necessary to use nvim to see this help message; it's in vim 8.0 that comes stock with my Mac.

Re: How to Exit Vim

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Post by weinzierl » Wed, Jan 08, 2020, 8:32 AM UTC

The question is not "How" but "Why" you would want to ever do that in the first place;-)

Many years ago I knew a university professor and students said about him he might leave uni occasionally but he sure never leaves Emacs. Some live in Emacs, some live in Vim.

Re: How to Exit Vim

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Post by yoz-y » Wed, Jan 08, 2020, 8:36 AM UTC

I came into this with a sense of "oh not again" and came out surprisingly happy. TIL that ZZ, ZQ exist and that a disown command exist on the command line.

Also my preferred method from the list is the timeout, it would be nice to have counter in a corner of the vim window to know how much time is left though.

Re: How to Exit Vim

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Post by zelly » Wed, Jan 08, 2020, 8:37 AM UTC

eddhead wrote: post #14

Oh looks, it's only been 10 minutes since the last Vim article was trending on HN, we're rivalling Hollywood levels of bubble here. Seriously, when CES is currently showing hundreds of new tech products and services, including a Hyundai electric helicopter - Vim is what we still talk about?

it's called hacker news, not electrical engineer news, not startups news