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On german QWERTZ keyboards, you need to use shift to make : and !.
Here in Tarzania we hold the superior and elusive ! key
Same on Dvorak.
Though the custom coder’s Dvorak I use while programming has a dedicated ! key. Shift still needed for : though.
Slovenian ones too
Common French W. AZERTY proves itself superior once again.
That’s basically all keyboard layouts.
vim something.log
esc
quit
exit
ctrl+x
ctrl+q
shushejehojwhatiwibaln):gufht;vfgs+_&f
reboot
nano something.logshushejehojwhatiwibaln
fond memories of this distro
git güdWhy would a text editor use a key like q to quit, obviously quit is <shift> + ZZ
We’re just quitting without writing? Living very dangerously aren’t we?
It is an emergency exit not a normal exit.
When I accidentally edit a very important file very incorrectly and don’t know what it looked like before
The real emergency exit will leave swap files
ctrl+z, kill %1
My initial take on the sticker was the whole “fire exit git commit git push;” I do see this other perspective now
It’s advice for how most people end up in vim in the first place.
git commit(without -m)
5 key presses to save and exit. Frickin vim.
I’m pretty sure that’s close without saving changes. :wq would be needed to save.
To be precise, : means bring up commands, w means save, q means exit, and ! means force
I think it’s w = write and q = quit so the letters make more sense
Also :x is the same as :wq
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TIL. Ty!
Why would you want to write again if no changes were made? It’s some obtuse behavior
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To be more precise, q means quit the current window. If you’ve split the window, e.g. with :split or :vsplit, use :qa to quit all windows.
Or 3. Hold shift, press ZZ to save and quit ZQ to quit without saving.
ZZZZ Write current file, if modified, and close the current window (same as “:x”). If there are several windows for the current file, only the current window is closed.
ZQZQ Quit without checking for changes (same as “:q!”).
Since people don’t seem to realize that vim has a help system: You can get to this information with
:help quitor:help exit
four. the ! is unnecessary. how many actions are there to save and quit in other editors? ctrl, s, ctrl, w is four. move to file, click, move to save, click, move to ×, click is six.
and that’s before we replace the wq with x.
If we count the modifier keys:
Vim: esc, shift+:, w, q, Enter
Emacs: ctrl-s, crtl+x ctrl+c, or use the menu options
I use both, but find Emacs much quicker, though vim is easier to learn, though Emacs is easier while you’re learning
i’ve never had the time to get into emacs, would love to though.
also, some layouts have the : on its own key, and if you include the esc in vim commands you’re not using vim correctly :)
ESC
Surely you’re editing right before exiting, why else would you be saving?
not necessarily. you could also have done a yank-paste, or a repeated action, or had a command output into the buffer.
it’s a good habit to always leave the editor in normal mode between actions, because that makes for a cleaner edit history with smaller changesets in the undo tree.
…vim is sort of like driving stick in that way.
Yeah, having used both, my preference is for Emacs, which also comes with the bonus of menu driven ways of doing most things when you’ve been away long enough to have forgotten a keyboard shortcut. I have always needed a cheat sheet handy when away from vim for a few months
i’ve moved to helix, partly to stop myself tinkering and partly because the reversed command model is just easier. plus it has popup helpers.
Depends how you count. Both
:and!require shift as well.Fuck it I’m pulling the power cord
You can use ZZ as a shortcut!
Thank you very much. I sent this to my coworker who expressed interest in switching to vim :)
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how to quit vim
- pull computer cord out of wall
Now it’s just running on battery
Works as long as you didn’t put something silly in your nvim config like
vim.keymap.set("ca", "q!", "echo 'not so fast!'")I believe that’s Vim for “Beam us out, Mr. Scott”
[Esc] [Z] [Z]
Or just ZZ for me since I’m rarely in insert mode (I just press esc quickly after making an edit out of habit).
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ZZ for the win.
Would it be
q a !?yet here in trq i need to press shift in %80 of the keys (that’s why i use micro)
the annoying thing about trq is that us is the default everywhere, so you can’t press [İ] to type “i”, it’ll type a " ’ " instead >:(
similar things for “:” and “-”
You all exit your editor? How you do the rest of your computing?
/s with ♡ from an Emacs fan.
Emacs really is an excellent desktop environment
Or just ctrl-z to get out of it and “fg” to get back. :)
ctrl-z
$ killall vimJust buy a new computer.
Just alt+F4, you didn’t need to edit that file anyways
