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Once you try Vim you will never use another text editor. Or any other program for that matter because you won’t be able to exit.

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What are you running MS-DOS? laughs in multi-tasking.

I just drag my vi terminals to another workspace and launch a new editor.

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I just drag my vi terminals to another workspace and launch a new editor.

I see what you did there. Lol.

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Emacs

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I also had that experience with emacs, which has a built in help system. I couldn’t find a topic on ‘exit’ or ‘quit’ and refused to just search online.

Took me half an hour.

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and refused to just search online

Unless you were f*cked by your ISP as I am right now, that’s having some balls. Or being masochist. But nothing in between

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I really didn’t want to let it win.

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I’m editor bilingual but im a bit rusty in Emacs, so skill check: its C-x C-c right?

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Ctrl + meta + butterfly

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Yes. Though I believe it only kills the current frame if there are multiple

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