Title John Hardy Lambda May 25, 2017 1 Minute Share this: Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Like Loading... Related Published by John Hardy Closures are a poor man's object. Objects are a poor man's closure. View all posts by John Hardy Published May 25, 2017
I’ve been using ed since 1992 for the same reason. stackoverflow.blog – Stack Overflow: Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim – Stack Overflow Blog LikeLike Reply
True story. first time I started Emacs, me and my friend never managed to exit it. 🙂 (I am now fluent Emacs user, and I have been seen exit vi without rebooting) 🙂 LikeLike Reply
God Emperor Lionel Lauer wrote “[ESC]:wq!” OK, OK, no need to swear — I was just asking. LikeLike Reply
I’ve never had trouble exiting Vi, and I haven’t used Linux since probablhy 2013. Maybe even 2011. LikeLike Reply
First time I started vim I had no other computer near me to search for a solution. So I did the sane thing and pulled the plug. That was the day I learned that there might be changes written to the kernel at any point, because I had to reinstall the OS afterwards. LikeLike Reply
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I’ve been using ed since 1992 for the same reason.
stackoverflow.blog – Stack Overflow: Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim – Stack Overflow Blog
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Why, what happened to Vi?
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vim is vi but with even more ways not to exit.https://plus.google.com/photos/…
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Oh man, that is such an old joke. 🙂
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From the comments on Dave’s link:
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Isn’t someone going to post how I can exit it?
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David Megginson [ESC]:wq!
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David Megginson Also, I believe there are 12 Step programs.
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True story.
first time I started Emacs, me and my friend never managed to exit it. 🙂
(I am now fluent Emacs user, and I have been seen exit vi without rebooting) 🙂
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God Emperor Lionel Lauer wrote “[ESC]:wq!”
OK, OK, no need to swear — I was just asking.
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No lie, I exited vim right before looking at G+ to see this. Successfully.
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I’ve never had trouble exiting Vi, and I haven’t used Linux since probablhy 2013. Maybe even 2011.
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First time I started vim I had no other computer near me to search for a solution. So I did the sane thing and pulled the plug.
That was the day I learned that there might be changes written to the kernel at any point, because I had to reinstall the OS afterwards.
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