• @orrk
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    291 year ago

    HELP! HOW DO I EXIT VIM? i’ve been stuck here for months, had to create my own browser from scratch.

    • @linearchaos
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      61 year ago

      The first time I got stuck in VI, cell phones didn’t have internet yet. We were a one computer household. I had printed out some instructions on how to modify XF86 configs. I had tried typing out every version of [ESC] I could come up with.

      If it wouldn’t have been for VI I would have been into Linux probably a decade earlier. It’s now my editor of choice but it probably wouldn’t have killed them to detect control x and give you a little hint text somewhere.

      • Morphit
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        41 year ago

        it probably wouldn’t have killed them

        It does pop a help message on CTRL C now. Also, Bram sadly died recently. Coincidence?

        • @linearchaos
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          11 year ago

          ohh hell, never saw that before, nice!