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First time when you ssh into your Linux terminal and you gotta “sudo crontab -e” or something and it’s like “what editor do you want to use?” and nano sounds lame so you choose vim cause the sound is cool when you say it and then you have to wipe the whole comp and start over

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[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Off-topic: never unplug this way, it’s bad for your cable and potentially dangerous.

[–] glizzyguzzler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 53 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s got ground so it’s certified safe!

[–] blackluster117@possumpat.io 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You'll have about 6ft of ground afterwards.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That cord is two feet long at best.

[–] Kase@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It's actually 40 ft long, it's just really big

[–] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I wanted the rest of the song. I asked Bing to make it, sorry Copilot. I am not disappointed

You heard there was a secret chord That you could use to meet the Lord 'Cause you don't care about power safety, do ya? You plugged it in without a thought And then you saw a bright blue spark And from your lips you screamed a loud "Hallelujah!"

Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelu-u-u-u-jah

Your room was dark, you smelled some smoke You realized you made a joke Of basic rules of electricity, didn't ya? You tried to find another plug But all you got was just a shrug And from your phone you heard a low "Hallelujah!"

Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelu-u-u-u-jah

You called the landlord right away He said he'd come and fix the fray But he would charge you extra for the labor, yeah You felt a pang of guilt and shame You knew you only had yourself to blame And from your wallet you let out a sigh "Hallelujah!"

Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelu-u-u-u-jah

[–] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

It's safer than losing your sanity to vim

[–] bestonecrazy@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] bestonecrazy@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 year ago

you have escaped

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

lawful good: alias vim=nano

chaotic evil: alias nano=vim

I would detonate if someone chaotic evil’d me

[–] Pipoca@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Setting vim to alias to nano seems just about as chaotic evil as making the VS Code icon take you to notepad.

[–] Pipoca@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I dunno, those both seem pretty chaotic evil to me.

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

If I typed vim and it opened nano I would start looking for people to kill

[–] biscuitswalrus@aussie.zone 15 points 1 year ago

Quitting Vim is called 'escaping' because it was designed to be a trap and you've escaped. Congratulations to everyone who has.

[–] Novman@feddit.it 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I develop only in vim, i find it way better that any modern gui.

[–] replicat@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

VSCode with the VIM mode plugin is kind of the best of both worlds.

[–] Novman@feddit.it 6 points 1 year ago

I dislike the graphical interface. Console helps me to be more productive.

[–] soupuos@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe it was just me, but I found VSCode's undo/redo vim trees (u/r) to be kind of awkward when compared to real vim.

[–] janabuggs@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Native vim? Or with an elaborate preference file?

I personally have grown so accustomed to vim that if I have to ssh to a new (to me) server I would rather use stock vi (which in most systems is actually an alias for vim) to any other editor. But honestly I have made an alias for a script that ports over my elaborate vimrc file for every first login to a new server or instance lol. It makes me feel a little like a diva 💁💅

[–] Novman@feddit.it 2 points 1 year ago

Vim with a minimal preference file, but sometimes vim only, i don't like vi cause it lacks syntax highlighting

[–] Anti_Weeb_Penguin@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How to use Vim: 1- Don't use it. 2- Use Nano or Gedit lmao.

[–] takeda@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Until those are not available.

This is a pisspoor attitude to have, just fire up vimtutor and you will know how to use it in no time.

[–] Sanyanov@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Unless you're a sysadmin who deals with very obscure systems, you'll always have access to nano, so why bother?

Vim elitists love to brag about how cool Vim is, but pretty much never properly elaborate. Why should I learn all those obscure commands to just edit some text? What's the point?

[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it feels smooth
the movement is very fast and precise
you don't need to move your hand for arrow keys so it's nice when you're lazy
i dont use vim anymore though, i use helix because it's purple

[–] Sanyanov@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Lol

Gotcha!

[–] thews@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I learned them and basically never use vim.

I use sed if i need to change things with a pattern, cat the file if i need to see the contents, use head or tail if its too much to fit on the screen.

If I am writing code, I use a code editor. Emacs and vim can do a lot, but they can also fuck off.

[–] Pipoca@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Even not being a vim wizard, editing code without vim keybindings feels... slow.

Yeah, I could grab the mouse, highlight everything between the arguments to a function and hit delete. Or I could just go to the open paren and just hit d%. I could grab the mouse, highlight the line and hit delete, or I could literally just type dd.

And trying to edit things in nano is positively masochistic.

[–] Sanyanov@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would someone edit the actual code (not configs) from the terminal? That by itself sounds like a masochistic endeavor. But I might be missing something.

[–] Pipoca@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I used to do it more back in college where I'd ssh into the schools computers to work on assignments. It's still sometimes useful if you're in the console and want to edit something quickly.

However, there's e.g. macvim and gvim which are literally just vim in a gui; they give you menus and the ability to drag panes and click to move your cursor. With a decent LSP setup they can actually be pretty nice.

And most other decent editors have vim emulation of various quality levels. Emacs is a bit buggy, but it's really useful if you want to code in agda or clojure. And VS Code has fairly decent vim emulation.

[–] Sanyanov@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I see, thank you for clarification!

[–] Slotos@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago
[–] GluWu@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Why, just use notepad, they're just text editors.

[–] phorq@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Who told you to add a job to your root crontab? Vim was just protecting you from yourself

[–] Dasnap@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

:q it's very easy. You could also just close the terminal window and easily escape that way.

[–] zorro@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I think someone else mentioned this but just run vimtutor in your command line for a pretty exhaustive tutorial.

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Doesn't work with laptops.

[–] glitches_brew@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

It does, but it takes longer

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah it does, it just takes longer

[–] al177@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

[CTRL][ALT][PrtSc]-K-S-U-B

or [ESC] :q!

YMMV

[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

Type :q to exit.

[–] Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

:killall -9 vim

[–] HappySloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

This is the way!

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How do I exit Vim?

escape colon w q

One of life's great mysteries

escape colon w q

I'm pretty sure it's impossible

it is literally. the first result on google.

The best way is to change to another terminal and forcequit it from there

escape then Shift+Z twice also works. or shift+Z shift+Q to quit without saving.

Or hard restart your entire computer

Are you people allergic to search engines or someth--

Bill Joy made vi impossible to exit because he wanted the source to always be open

siiiiiiiiigh

Yes, I'm an old man yelling at cloud, but Vim and Neovim are fantastic text editors that really are worth the half hour you'll spend running through the tutorial to learn them, and the subsequent two weeks you'll spend installing plugins and configuring it exactly to your liking. It really does make writing software more efficient and really doesn't deserve the reputation it gets from "vim is hard to exit lmao" memes made by people who haven't bothered to change their $EDITOR to nano, had it launch automatically when they tried to write a commit message, and instantly decided it was just yet another piece of arcane 80s Unix bullshit