• RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Ahem, per the cartoon, the genie typed “vi”, which leaves vi in command mode.

      As an emacs user, I’m ctrl-x ctrl-c with this conversation.

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        Unless you are on a Mac, then ctrl is META, and META+c gets you to the place where you can :q!

        ESC is just too far to deal with when using vi.

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                1 year ago

                Go ask Red Hat for their sources.

                EDIT: I’m a Linux Performance Engineer with 15 years under my belt and I use a Mac as my daily driver. Including when I gasp interface with Linux computers because it’s always a combination of ssh and configuration management of some form. Telling me that Mac users don’t use vim is, on its face, one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard. It’s a text based interface. I could do it with Windows, but I’m faster on Macs.

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        Or just use nano and have a built in cheat sheet

        Edit: I just realized nano is the gen z text editor for Linux…

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          :x also writes (same as :wq). :q! is force quit. If you accidentally made changes then :q will give an error and :x will write those changes. So :q! Is you safest bet if you need to gtfo.