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Re: "vi – How do I exit Vim?" on stackoverflow viewed +3M times
#2Blog article from 2017, when the post reached 1M views: https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/05/23/stack-overflow-helping...
Re: "vi – How do I exit Vim?" on stackoverflow viewed +3M times
#3"How do I avoid Vim?"- the real question.
Re: "vi – How do I exit Vim?" on stackoverflow viewed +3M times
#4"How do I avoid Vim?"- the real question.
sudo apt remove vim
Re: "vi – How do I exit Vim?" on stackoverflow viewed +3M times
#5My favourite advice for how to quit vim is to run a vim command that someone wrote that calls emacs and asks it to tell the operating system to kill vim's process. I'm sorry that I've lost my link to the details.
Re: "vi – How do I exit Vim?" on stackoverflow viewed +3M times
#6I think about this meme every time I get distracted adding more customization to my vimrc. "How do I quit vim?" I ask myself as I dig deeper down the rabbit hole.
Re: "vi – How do I exit Vim?" on stackoverflow viewed +3M times
#7You reset the computer and forget about this Linux thing for a year or two is how I answered this question in the nineties.
Re: "vi – How do I exit Vim?" on stackoverflow viewed +3M times
#8I think about this meme every time I get distracted adding more customization to my vimrc. "How do I quit vim?" I ask myself as I dig deeper down the rabbit hole.
Studies show that vim is harder to quit than heroin or cocaine
Re: "vi – How do I exit Vim?" on stackoverflow viewed +3M times
#9You reset the computer and forget about this Linux thing for a year or two is how I answered this question in the nineties.
You barbarian. I used to switch to a different virtual terminal and do "killall vim" like a normal person.
(These days, I can do basic VI mainly because a crappy mini-VI is often the only editor on systems using Busybox...)
Re: "vi – How do I exit Vim?" on stackoverflow viewed +3M times
#10The vim startup screen clearly explains how to exit vim and how to help poor children in Uganda. I don't see the point of this meme. https://i.stack.imgur.com/RjuBp.png
