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Re: How to Exit Vim

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Post by anotheryou »

yason wrote: post #95

In the opposing vein, as an Emacs user the best configuration I ever made was to rebind C-x C-c to execute-extended-command instead of kill-emacs. It was way too easy to (even accidentally!) kill emacs with a sweep of a finger. And I probably use a few hundred execute-extended-command calls for each kill-emacs (which I now have to type manually as 'C-x C-c kill-emacs' - no problemo). A similar optimisation was with t…

I think emacs is the winner here. It's true beauty is that most users have remapped everything so all you can do is bruteforce your way to the exit.

And where do you get exiting an OS? We don't know... maybe another OS...

Re: How to Exit Vim

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Post by jgtrosh »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #52
cmroanirgo wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I live in a different universe to you it seems. The only vim command I know is :q . Honestly, I tried several times over the decades and walked away with my head buzzing. PS: I don't live in emacs either! What I do love in both camps is how the explanations begin... "All you have to do is...[insert irrational (to non-vim/emacs users) command]" which makes me laugh every time. Love the article, which ironically proves…

I know some basic commands and know it well enough to edit git commit messages and interactive rebase (`ddkP` is probably the most advanced command I know). But I've never thought "I prefer this over my regular editor this is amazing". I just don't get the satisfaction. And of course I'd have to dive deep into the ecosystem in order to get the same benefits that my main editor provides out of the box, like idk, cmd+c…

> `ddkP` is probably the most advanced command I know

Maybe I'm not thinking straight because of the sickness, but I think `ddp` from the line above does the same thing with one fewer keystroke.

Re: How to Exit Vim

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Post by drbojingle »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #52
cmroanirgo wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I live in a different universe to you it seems. The only vim command I know is :q . Honestly, I tried several times over the decades and walked away with my head buzzing. PS: I don't live in emacs either! What I do love in both camps is how the explanations begin... "All you have to do is...[insert irrational (to non-vim/emacs users) command]" which makes me laugh every time. Love the article, which ironically proves…

I know some basic commands and know it well enough to edit git commit messages and interactive rebase (`ddkP` is probably the most advanced command I know). But I've never thought "I prefer this over my regular editor this is amazing". I just don't get the satisfaction. And of course I'd have to dive deep into the ecosystem in order to get the same benefits that my main editor provides out of the box, like idk, cmd+c…

text objects are a big reason for the satisfaction for me. I spend a fair amount of time moving code around and I like being able to say "delete everything in this indentation level and copy it" in 3 keystrokes. It's pretty sweet when you're use to it and you have it customized to do what you want (which takes time and isn't for everyone).

Re: How to Exit Vim

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Post by numlock86 »

I was on a remote system and remember I couldn't exit vi. What did I do? Well, I opened a second ssh session, looked up the process id with ps and killed it.

This is so many decades ago ... like the very beginning of my curiosity when it comes to IT basically. Thinking back to it, I wonder how I was able to use ssh and tools like grep, ps and kill but did not know how to operate basic vi ...

Re: How to Exit Vim

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Post by dkersten »

eddhead wrote: post #103
zelly wrote: post #30

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

It's on YCombinator, which is a startup accelerator

Yes, but it’s never been just about startups or business. It’s always been any topic of interest to hacker types which includes startups and business, but also technology, programming, tools, peoples projects and even sometimes satire of such.

Re: How to Exit Vim

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Post by numlock86 »

smcl wrote: post #36

It's amazing to think how far we've come since June 2018 where the record was just shy of three minutes ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLbfqZBL8t8 ). These new strategies could allow experienced speedrunners to exit vim in times of 10 seconds (or perhaps less!?). I'm excited to see how this progresses, the vim speedrun community is vibrant and creative and I've no doubt we'll see a sub 5-second run within my lifet…

Pretty sure there will be a TAS in the sub-second range in the near future!
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