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Re: How to Exit Vim

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Post by worble »

wffurr wrote: post #127
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…

How do you exit, then, if you never learned :q?

He never did, some say he's still in vi to this day.

Re: How to Exit Vim

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Post by nurettin »

aargh_aargh wrote: post #124
bobowzki wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would prefer a functional approach and formal verification so we can know for sure it will exit.

Since the real world is not necessarily deterministic as demonstrated by the methods using random(), I hope to see more development in stochastical methods describing parameters of probability distributions of successful exits.

In the face of vim's unyielding resilience to exiting, I think we may need to devise a new algorithm for this using quantum superposition. I heard IBM can help with that.

Re: How to Exit Vim

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Post by cerebellum42 »

Zenst wrote: post #98
gpmcadam wrote: post #64

Oh dear. What are the chances this will eventually rank fairly highly on search engines - this is going to ruin the soul of the unsuspecting people who end up thinking that this is not satirical advice.

Better they ruin their own soul than inflict upon others is the way to look at that. But then, what type of people don't RTFM besides the whole generation that treat google as their manual and when the internets down, so is there `knowledge` /s.

RTFM clearly does not apply because you can't read it if you're in vim and can't exit ;)

Re: How to Exit Vim

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Post by talles »

Jokes aside, shouldn't the page start with actually teaching how to quit vim?

The page is considerably popular to show up on a Google search. I imagine the frustration of a beginner actually trying the first examples and not getting the joke immediately.

Re: How to Exit Vim

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Post by xerox13ster »

Zenst wrote: post #97
thepete2 wrote: post #11

I have the feeling something is missing on that list, but I can't put my finger on it ...

BRS, that old classic Big Red Switch, kills all known operating systems and proc's, dead in their tracks. Me, It's usually :wq, or sometimes :q! or more than likely ZZ - which can be done with shift zz or if you truly want to do it with just one finger, capslock then zz.

:x

Re: How to Exit Vim

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Post by Dowwie »

bobowzki wrote: post #110
Dowwie wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe the solution to this lies in using Rust and SIMD. It will achieve both performance and safety.

I would prefer a functional approach and formal verification so we can know for sure it will exit.

But who would support it? While a formally verified functional approach may satisfy one's doctorate requirements, the author will graduate and move onto blockchain development, leaving behind an exit-vim code base that no other engineer could possibly understand without the equivalent training. Upon receiving said training, an engineer would also take newly acquired doctorate and also move onto blockchain development. Essentially, supporting a formally verified functional approach to exiting Vim creates a pipeline of well-credentialed and rigorously trained professionals for blockchain development. If Vim were, however, put on the blockchain, we may be able to address this concern and you can get what you wanted.

Or, you could have just used Rust and SIMD.

Re: How to Exit Vim

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Post by toby- »

throwaway744678 wrote: post #49
jraph wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a vim noob, I needed to look it up [0]. ZZ saves the current file if modified and closes it. ZQ closes it without saving. Thank you, that will save me a few seconds per year. Why the French way? I don't get it and I am very curious :-) [0] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/93144/exit-vim-more...

(Wild guess) If you pronounce the command aloud - "Zee-zee" - it translates to "Willy" (penis word used by children) in French. Easy mnemonic.

>Zee-zee

Only if you're American. Otherwise: "zed-zed". :)

Re: How to Exit Vim

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Post by kburman »

namelosw wrote: post #37

- So, how did you learn Vim? I heard there's quite a learning curve. - I just open it, but I couldn't figure out how to quit. Then I have been using it for three years already. (Same applies to Emacs.)

I have tried to start using vim so many times and failed. Even this year I thought to start using vim. Daily I open vim once try to do something new with it. Although I don't have much of hope that I will start using it an soon.

Re: How to Exit Vim

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Post by namelosw »

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…

Emacs is so dynamic and easily configurable, that people can actually rebind a lot of things when their colleague go to the bathroom as a prank.

Just open a scratch file, enter some s-expressions, evaluate them, then kill the buffer.

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