I’m trying out Obsidian for taking notes, and this made me laugh.

  • @hperrin
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    61 year ago

    According to Stack Overflow, there is also:

    • :cq (quit without writing and return non-zero exit code)
    • ZQ (quit without writing from normal mode)
    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      I actually knew about ZQ :)

      but in what case would you ever need :cq ? I’m curious what’s the idea behind that

      Edit: I checked, neither work for obsidian verification, including :cq!

      disappointing :c

      • @[email protected]
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        1 year ago

        It’s useful when vim is being run from a different program or script.

        For example, if I run p4 change to create a new Perforce changelist it will open up my editor (which I have set to vim) so that I can enter the CL description and other fields. If I realize I don’t actually actually want to create the CL yet I can use :cq to quit with an error so that p4 knows to abort.

        I also have a script I use for diffing a list of file pairs. It runs vimdiff on the first pair of files then if I exit with :qa it will move on to the next pair of files. But if I exit with :cq it will just abort and skip all of the remaining file pairs.