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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (8 children)
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Vim user here. The only way to exit vim is to pray to the Vim gods and sacrifice your first born, hoping that they'll cause a cosmic ray to hit the right spot in the memory to flip the right bit that causes it to exit. There are no alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I usually just power-cycle the machine

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Just because this is a vim meme, does anyone know how to copy text from one instance of vim to the other?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You can yank text to system clipboard buffer ie +. Then paste (put) from the clipboard to any other vim process.

Keep in mind you should have clipboard support in your vim. If you're on ubuntu, install vim-gtk and you should be good

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just use a single instance of Emacs to edit everything everywhere all at once. You can even use vim keybindings if you have no taste.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Emacs is more for devs though, yeah? I'm just a lowly sysadmin in training.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Install xclip then press "+y (double-quote plus-sign y) to yank to system clipboard then "+p to put from sys clipboard

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Fuck it, use neovim and copy to the system clipboard.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I think you can just use y and p

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Copy the text to a local clipboard, then paste it into your terminal in the other instance

IDK I only use vim over ssh

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Instance of Vim? Swap buffers fool

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Would this work if one of those instances was in a VM?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have been a vim user for more than 20 years. I tried to quit for a couple of years, but now I have just accepted my faith.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Vim enthusiasts are just people with late stage Stockholm syndrome

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I have a few more suggestions:

  • JACKBOYS - WHAT TO DO?
  • Travis Scott - LOST FOREVER
  • Travis Scott - Impossible
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there any playlist that wouldn’t be improved by adding Cat by C418 at the end?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

there aren't.

& most people don't even know what/ who C418 is...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He was that guy working on the music for that 0x10c game, right?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Pour one out for 0x10c

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haven't heard of 0x10c since 2012. Shame it was canceled, I love Elite and would love more games in its niche

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've found Ostranauts recently, and it's really fun and I feel has some of the same vibes. Not even close to the same though, being able to program your own systems that you put together. I still sometimes think about what 0x10c could have been. I've considered doing something similar myself, but I haven't gotten around to it. Maybe someday something similar will exist.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

most people don't even know what/ who C418 is...

most people would recognise his songs though...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Cat by C418 is literally the only piece in the list I recognize.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

MINECRAFT!!!!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

easy mnemonic to quit vim: imagine you're captain Picard in the middle of typing ":3" when Q shows up

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Or, hear me out, : because you're doing a command, and then q for quit. Probably make it wq too, to write and quit

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, that doesn't make any sense. We need something convoluted so that people don't remember it next time it's needed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Tell that to my history teacher...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

did you know there is a vim tutor for learning how to vim?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

vimtutor, which I believe is installed with vim by default

Edit: My brain apparently inserted an extra word that made it seem like you were seeking said program. Leaving it though for those wondering in the future.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but imo the best way to learn vim is to do it as you go. You only really need to know getting in and out of insert and how to write and quit. Once you've got that, if you wanna do something and think there's probably a better way than moving there with the arrow keys, look it up on the Internet, remember the thing, do it a few times and you've learned a new thing about vim. "Surely there's a search and replace function" yeah, is substitute with the s command. "I wanna navigate quicker within lines" use f, t and their capital versions. Combine with the quickscope plugin and you're golden. Learn the stuff you want to use, don't memorize commands you don't need

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Forgot

Escape first, because it wants to keep you inside the matrix and you need to tell it you are trying to escape

q!

Because you probably don’t want to save whatever you’ve accidentally done to that file trying to quit, and you have to add an exclamation point because unless you yell loudly at vim it won’t listen

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Someone finally exited vim

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why do you want to exit? Just :terminal

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

RIP to people who never shutdown or restart their PCs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Nano >>> vim

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Funny story. After you start you can't go back. What is a nano?

Edit: If ctrl-z doesn't get you out of vim you need to install another terminal or more likely just ditch your distro altogether.

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