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Re: How to Exit Vim

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Post by AnonHP »

jfoutz wrote: post #14
squid_ca wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel like you're missing a few esc's and a colon in there...

zz? Only one esc, but definitely a colon. vim is weird. Works for me, but I understand it’s not suitable for everyone’s tastes.

zz centers the screen on the current line. Use ZZ to save the file and quit. Use ZQ to not save but quit.

Re: How to Exit Vim

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Post by maxbond »

kristopolous wrote: post #16
callamdelaney wrote: post #7

I assume somebody thought this was funny?

A lot of people did, look at the contributors There's this subculture in the computer world, the pinnacle of which is arguably still Eric Raymond's Jargon File ( http://catb.org/jargon/html/ ) which I could never connect with it.

Clarification, ESR didn't originate the jargon file. He edited and published an edition of it, but he wasn't the first to do so.

"The Story of Mel" and "Sussman Attains Enlightenment" are stories I come back to every so often.

There's similar stuff here: http://www.thecodelesscode.com/contents

I sure hope the jargon file isn't the pinnacle. Not because of any problem with it, I just hope we will surpass a collection last majorly edited 30 years ago.

Re: How to Exit Vim

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Post by johnnyanmac »

callamdelaney wrote: post #7

I assume somebody thought this was funny?

Humor is subjective, but for me it was one of those chuckles that turned into "this is getting too long". And then you realize it goes on for so long with so many technologies that it loops around to being funny again, or simply impressive at what a high effort troll this was.

Re: How to Exit Vim

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Post by callamdelaney »

kristopolous wrote: post #16
callamdelaney wrote: post #7

I assume somebody thought this was funny?

A lot of people did, look at the contributors There's this subculture in the computer world, the pinnacle of which is arguably still Eric Raymond's Jargon File ( http://catb.org/jargon/html/ ) which I could never connect with it.

That's kind of what makes it un-funny, there's like 100 repetitions of the same joke. How can that be funny?
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