:wq!

I feel like the images should be switched.

If you wanna save changes: :wq

If not: :q!

Else: :SpanishInquisition

I always get annoyed when I'm on some system and nano pops up and I need to figure out how to kill that thing.

I prefer the extremely intuitive:

[C-R]=system("grep -P "PPid:\t(\d+)" /proc/$$/status | cut -f2 | xargs kill -9")

or

i:!grep -P "PPid:\t(\d+)" /proc/$$/status | cut -f2 | xargs kill -9[esc]Y:@"[cr]

It just rolls off the fingers, doesn't it?

Edit: damn it lemmy didn't like my meme because it assumes that characters between angle brackets are html tags :( you ruined it lemmy

EDIT 2: rewrote it, just assume that square brackets are buttons not characters

There's a button to exit vim on your pc. Just hold it 7 seconds and vim is closed. 😅

you don't need the ! when you have the w, because your changes already get saved.

:ggdGwq (please don't do this)

Serious question. Why? No, for real, why? Why are these hard to understand editors still the default on most distros and flavors? Why haven't they reinvented themselves with easier to understand shortcuts?

I get the feeling my comment will attract heat, but I'm a web dev, studied comp Sci for years, have worked for nearly a decade and have spent over half my 30 year old life using computers of all sorts. I'm by no means a genius and I by no means know enough about this or most tech subjects, but I literally only knew how to close vim with and without saving changes in a recent vim encounter, purely due to a meme I saw in this community a few days prior, and I had already forgotten the commands by the time I saw this post. Nothing about vim and alternatives feels intuitive or easy to use, and you may say it's a matter of sitting down and learning, which you can argue that, but you can't argue this isn't a bit of a gatekeeper for people trying to dip their toes into anything that could eventually rely on opening vim to do something.

I won't try to deny its place in computer history, or its use for many, or even that it is preferred by some, but when every other software with keyboard shortcuts agrees on certain easy to remember standards, I don't quite understand how software that goes against all of that hasn't been replaced or hasn't reinvented itself in newer versions.

Then again, I have no idea what the difference between vi, vim, emacs, and nano are, so roast away!

+Z
killall -9 vim

ZZ/ZQ.

:x

ZZ

I love how in the comments on even the most basic vim meme I learn something new

:qa!

Wouldn't you want to just want to type q! As you've probably opened it and accidentally made changes you didn't want to. So you wouldn't want to save the config file. Or the text file you just created.

Ctrl+Alt+F2

reboot

I've never understood people arguing about terminal text editors like nano and vim. Why not just use a GUI text editor like gedit?