ZZ will save file though, the others won't. You meant ZQ.
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- Unplug the computer
- Shut the house electric safety switch down
- Cut the electricity pole nearest to the house
- Bomb the nearest electricity distribution post
Open vim.
Accept vim is the OS now.
Does colon-capital-Q-exclamation mark even work? I'm pretty sure it's only lower case q.
its supposed to be lowercase,
but imgflip put the entire text in uppercase.
Does unplugging the machine not work?
I call my local energy provider and simply cancel my contract with immediate effect.
ctrl-z
kill %1
holy crap,
that's exactly what i wanted the last command to do.
i just didn't know you can target jobs,
and settled with quitting the shell instead
cat /dev/zero > "/proc/$(pidof vim)/mem" is my favorite dumb way. Clear its memory, wait for the segfault.
dumb way.
Get fancy, add progress bar: pv < /dev/zero > "/proc/$(pidof vim)/mem"