Stack Overflow: Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim (2017)
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Stack Overflow: Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim (2017)
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Re: Stack Overflow: Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim (2017)
#2First time I used vim more than a decade ago, I got stuck too. Kill vim from other console and then googled it for future reference.
Re: Stack Overflow: Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim (2017)
#3What about tmux and screen?
Re: Stack Overflow: Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim (2017)
#4What's all this stuff about colon keys and enter?
Just ZQ (without saving) or ZZ (to save) :)
Re: Stack Overflow: Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim (2017)
#5This is probably the #1 problem with Unix-based systems in general for new users. There are so many ways to exit a command prompt depending on the application!
Off the top of my head: Ctrl+D, q, :q, exit, quit(), Ctrl+C, Ctrl+X.
Countless times have I been locked in an application and needed to cycle through those memorized commands to escape. Imagine doing that as a newbie.
Re: Stack Overflow: Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim (2017)
#6This is probably the #1 problem with Unix-based systems in general for new users. There are so many ways to exit a command prompt depending on the application! Off the top of my head: Ctrl+D, q, :q, exit, quit(), Ctrl+C, Ctrl+X. Countless times have I been locked in an application and needed to cycle through those memorized commands to escape. Imagine doing that as a newbie.
ctrl+d is the most dangerous kind! Since that one can also exit the terminal itself.
gdb takes, depending on the situation, one time ctrl+d or two times ctrl+d to quit. It's a trap!
So since gdb usually takes two times, muscle memory learns two times, but then in that rare instance where it required it only once... logged out of ssh :(
Re: Stack Overflow: Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim (2017)
#7kill -9 `pidof vim`
Also, whoever decided to have vim as the default editor in the windows port of git.. this is brain damaged. Just use notepad already!
Re: Stack Overflow: Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim (2017)
#8kill -9 `pidof vim` Also, whoever decided to have vim as the default editor in the windows port of git.. this is brain damaged . Just use notepad already!
Given that notepad only supports unix newlines since a few months ago, I can see why that one wasn't the default
Re: Stack Overflow: Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim (2017)
#9I was always fascinated by the different groups in programming and the huge differences between them. Frontend developers contrast with backend app developers, but not nearly as much as frontend and low-level programmers. It's a bit like human races or animal species that evolved differently due to differences in environment and challenges faced. If you look at the global programming community its diversity is huge. I can't help but find that deeply inspiring.
Re: Stack Overflow: Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim (2017)
#10Why is this such an issue? It is no harder exiting vim than it is exiting plain old vi, nvi or any other vi clone. In fact, the very same keystrokes that you use for exiting vi can be used in vim as well.