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[–] TrustingZebra@lemmy.one 136 points 2 years ago (8 children)
[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 65 points 2 years ago

Restart the computer ;)

[–] CeeBee@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's pretty simple:

  • Spam the escape key a bit
  • Then do shift + ;
  • when you're in command mode, do the following
  • q! to forcibly quit
  • wq! to forcibly write your changes and quit

Simple!-ish

[–] p_consti@feddit.de 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not to be pedantic, but it's not shift+; it's :, which may be somewhere else depending on your keyboard. For example on (german?) Quertz that's shift+.

[–] CeeBee@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

This is true, but since I already used ":" to indicate an upcoming list, I wanted to be deliberately clear that I was referring to the key, and not suggesting another list.

[–] lntl@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Why would you want to do that? Vim is efficiency. Without vim, you're wasting your life.

[–] TrustingZebra@lemmy.one 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I know exactly what you mean. Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about?

[–] lntl@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

It's all around.

[–] Chriszz@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Exactly. What OP should do is never close vim. You don’t need to close it.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A surprised emoticon with a cigar hanging out of its mouth isn't particularly helpful.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

All vim commands are emoticons

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You just discarded all of your changes.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Yeah, because it all got trashed from the previous keyboard mashing.

[–] SneakyThunder@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] petersr@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] SneakyThunder@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago

Simply spend a couple hours configuring vim

[–] Lemmyvisitor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 years ago

opening vim is like entering purgatory

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For the longest time I thought that answer was Ctrl-Z

[–] BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Same here in the beginning I used

Ctrl-z

kill %1

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

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