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Nano ftw
I’m too used to nano, switching for micro for a while I was constantly using nano key combos and making a mess of things.
Stockholm syndrome from key combos lol
Makes sense, though you can rebind shortcuts in micro
https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/blob/master/runtime/help/keybindings.md
Vim user here. The only way to exit vim is to pray to the Vim gods and sacrifice your first born, hoping that they’ll cause a cosmic ray to hit the right spot in the memory to flip the right bit that causes it to exit. There are no alternatives.
Are you guys serious? Command q. or x. or wq. or use a proper fucking terminal so you can ctrl -z and resume.
These is one of the oldest Linux memes. No, they aren’t serious. I have a hard time believing anyone here doesn’t actually know how to exit vim properly.
I am non-serious, I just don’t like vim (or emacs; if I’m editing a text file in a terminal I want nano, or I append manually with pipes as Linus intended).
Most of my systems have X11 and some basic GUI text editor, my server is the exception that proves the rule. There is generally no actual reason to use Vim except liking Vim, or wanting to learn to like Vim.
For those that do like Vim, or want to learn it for historical reasons? Good on you, have fun.
If you like emacs fuck off though.
easy mnemonic to quit vim: imagine you’re captain Picard in the middle of typing “:3” when Q shows up
Or, hear me out, : because you’re doing a command, and then q for quit. Probably make it wq too, to write and quit
Yeah, but imo the best way to learn vim is to do it as you go. You only really need to know getting in and out of insert and how to write and quit. Once you’ve got that, if you wanna do something and think there’s probably a better way than moving there with the arrow keys, look it up on the Internet, remember the thing, do it a few times and you’ve learned a new thing about vim. “Surely there’s a search and replace function” yeah, is substitute with the s command. “I wanna navigate quicker within lines” use f, t and their capital versions. Combine with the quickscope plugin and you’re golden. Learn the stuff you want to use, don’t memorize commands you don’t need
Forgot
Escape first, because it wants to keep you inside the matrix and you need to tell it you are trying to escape
q!
Because you probably don’t want to save whatever you’ve accidentally done to that file trying to quit, and you have to add an exclamation point because unless you yell loudly at vim it won’t listen
No, that doesn’t make any sense. We need something convoluted so that people don’t remember it next time it’s needed.
Just because this is a vim meme, does anyone know how to copy text from one instance of vim to the other?
You can yank text to system clipboard buffer ie +. Then paste (put) from the clipboard to any other vim process.
Keep in mind you should have clipboard support in your vim. If you’re on ubuntu, install vim-gtk and you should be good
Just use a single instance of Emacs to edit everything everywhere all at once. You can even use vim keybindings if you have no taste.
Emacs is more for devs though, yeah? I’m just a lowly sysadmin in training.
I think Vim is more popular with sysadmins because, historically, you could count on Vi or Vim being available on just about any server you had to do some work on, while Emacs might not be. That’s still probably somewhat true, although in the world of clouds, containers, and source-controlled, reproducible configuration, it’s probably less common to edit files in place on a server.
However, with Emacs tramp, you can edit files just about anywhere you can access, by any means, even if there is no editor installed there at all, using your local Emacs, with all your accustomed configuration. Like popping open a file inside a container running on a remote server by ssh, something I’ve done a lot of lately, debugging services running on AWS ECS.
I have been a vim user for more than 20 years. I tried to quit for a couple of years, but now I have just accepted my faith.
