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My wife was unimpressed by Vim (programming.dev)

submitted 8 months ago by LinearArray@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] achance4cheese@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I just dipped my feet in Vim yesterday, I found it not intuitive at all. :wq! To exit a read only file? I’m too dumb to think of syntax like that!

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

: is your commandline, it does a lot of actions. w is write, q is quit. So you're doing a write quit, the ! just tells it to fuck off and do the fucking command essentially.

If you open a read only file, and you need to quit just hit it with the :q! or if you haven't made any changes, :q will work just fine.

naturally, as one would expect, you can hit all of these independently. :w just writes changes, :q will close as aforementioned.