can I get a W in the chat???

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W! What was the commit for?

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You know it’s a 3 character documentation change.

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Grammar.

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Added support for a new DNS provider via dietpi’s DNS wizard :^)

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We need to know!

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:w

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:wq

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:x mf

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Xx

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iW^[:wq

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What is ^[ here? Do you literally type that I to the keyboard? Or is it the ANSI escape sequence for Ctrl or something.

I hate whenever I see something binded to the square braces, does not work properly for qwerty or is at least impractical.

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Ctrl-[ is escape in ASCII (not specifically ANSI/VT100/etc), and Ctrl is sometimes abbreviated as ^.

I don’t know the exact history of why this is a thing that comes up with vi often. My guess is that ESC on the ADM-3a terminal that vi originally targeted influenced it. On ADM-3a, ESC is where tab is on a PC-101 keyboard, a comfy key to hit while touch typing. When later terminals started to move ESC a couple of rows up it was more ergonomic to hit ctrl-[ instead.

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W

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W

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W

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W

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W!

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W

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