IMHO, it's a horrible hack that is just broken. It's obscure and we need to rewrite it because it has a bad structure. ^X^Cquit^[ESC][ESC]^C
The best way I know to quit vi is by turning off your computer
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Why would you quit vim?
you can also accomplish that by turning off city's electrical grid
I'm absolutely guilty of self-documenting code, but mostly because I'm sick of everyone else's lying comments.
I'm one of those people who think that Perl is a write-only language
-Linus torvalds
"I can read this Perl scrip"t should translate to "I'm lying".
ESC + :q!
ESC to enter normal mode (if you're in a different mode like insert) : (colon) to enter commands q to quit ! (or a) to use the quit command withiut keeping any changes
He's speaking the language of the gods..
ESC + (shift) ZZ is faster and also saves your changes!
Hey, now. It is possible to write readable Perl code—it's just less interesting that way. 😜
I've been seeing a lot of Perl jokes lately and as far as legacy code I haven't had to edit anything written in that in 25 or so years. For those that haven't used it, getting form variables and rudimentary things like that were like equivalent to regular expressions, everything had some obscure expression you had to look up or copy paste.
"The reason I use Perl is because I wanna write scripts that no one can read and no one can understand so that I can keep my job"
IMHO it's a complex, temporary work around with a few issues.
Also vim > emacs