- Unplug the computer
- Shut the house electric safety switch down
- Cut the electricity pole nearest to the house
- Bomb the nearest electricity distribution post
39 0 Replynuke it from orbit. it's the only way to be sure.
16 0 Reply- Wait for a sufficiently powerful coronal mass ejection to collapse the global electric grid
7 0 Reply"Simple and easily explained."
1 0 ReplyPretty sure I can learn my grandma to put a fork in any socket to close Vim, no prior knowledge needed
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you can close vim?
24 0 Reply"this is my life now"
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Does colon-capital-Q-exclamation mark even work? I'm pretty sure it's only lower case q.
24 0 Replyits supposed to be lowercase,
but imgflip put the entire text in uppercase.22 0 ReplyHonestly, the joke landed anyway. I've done numerous uppercase-Q trying to quit, because I didn't let go of
Shift
fast enough after typing the colon...5 0 Reply
Was going to say this, myself.
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cat /dev/zero > "/proc/$(pidof vim)/mem"
is my favorite dumb way. Clear its memory, wait for the segfault.18 0 Reply...you can write to program memory? Idk how exactly but that feels like a security risk.
2 0 ReplyIt's your process, why shouldn't you be able to write to it? Vi is certainly doing it...
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dumb way.
Get fancy, add progress bar: pv < /dev/zero > "/proc/$(pidof vim)/mem"
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Amateur. Just unplug the power cable.
11 0 ReplyOpen vim.
Accept vim is the OS now.
6 0 Replyctrl-S instinctively from windows then panic when the terminal pauses and isnt accepting input so you restart the computer.
5 0 ReplyFuck, are you me?
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ctrl-z
kill %1
5 0 Replyholy crap,
that's exactly what i wanted the last command to do.i just didn't know you can target jobs,
and settled with quitting the shell instead4 0 Replyyeah it's my favorite way to exit Vim. I post it every time I get a chance lol https://gekinzuku.com/comment/202790
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There's a whole repo of possible methods: https://github.com/hakluke/how-to-exit-vim
4 0 ReplyOne panel below: shut down the computer
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3 0 ReplyZZ will save file though, the others won't. You meant ZQ.
3 0 ReplyM-! pkill -9 vim
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try...
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it will save your changes and exit vim If there are no changes to the then it just exits vim.
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1 0 ReplyDoes unplugging the machine not work?
1 0 ReplyI call my local energy provider and simply cancel my contract with immediate effect.
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- Ctrl + T + alt
- sudo reboot
1 0 Replytil shift-z shift-z. am I stupid
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