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ways to close vim (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 2 years ago by Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] Jakylla@sh.itjust.works 40 points 2 years ago (3 children)
  • Unplug the computer
  • Shut the house electric safety switch down
  • Cut the electricity pole nearest to the house
  • Bomb the nearest electricity distribution post
[–] BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 years ago

nuke it from orbit. it's the only way to be sure.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago
  • Wait for a sufficiently powerful coronal mass ejection to collapse the global electric grid
[–] diemechanist@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Simple and easily explained."

[–] Jakylla@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Pretty sure I can learn my grandma to put a fork in any socket to close Vim, no prior knowledge needed

[–] mayoaddict@pawb.social 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

you can close vim?

[–] z3n0x@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago

"this is my life now"

[–] alnilam@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Does colon-capital-Q-exclamation mark even work? I'm pretty sure it's only lower case q.

[–] Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

its supposed to be lowercase,
but imgflip put the entire text in uppercase.

[–] RustySharp@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago

Honestly, 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...

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

Was going to say this, myself.

[–] Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

cat /dev/zero > "/proc/$(pidof vim)/mem" is my favorite dumb way. Clear its memory, wait for the segfault.

[–] julianh@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

...you can write to program memory? Idk how exactly but that feels like a security risk.

[–] nintendiator@feddit.cl 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's your process, why shouldn't you be able to write to it? Vi is certainly doing it...

[–] Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 years ago

You do need to be root to do it to arbitrary processes.

[–] vrkr@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

dumb way.

Get fancy, add progress bar: pv < /dev/zero > "/proc/$(pidof vim)/mem"

[–] cloudless@feddit.uk 11 points 2 years ago

Amateur. Just unplug the power cable.

[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Open vim.

Accept vim is the OS now.

[–] Sarsoar@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

ctrl-S instinctively from windows then panic when the terminal pauses and isnt accepting input so you restart the computer.

[–] MattTheProgrammer@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

Fuck, are you me?

[–] Boermund@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago

One panel below: shut down the computer

[–] graham1@gekinzuku.com 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

ctrl-z
kill %1

[–] Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

holy 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 instead

[–] graham1@gekinzuku.com 2 points 2 years ago

yeah it's my favorite way to exit Vim. I post it every time I get a chance lol https://gekinzuku.com/comment/202790

[–] mormegil@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

There's a whole repo of possible methods: https://github.com/hakluke/how-to-exit-vim

[–] docAvid@midwest.social 3 points 2 years ago

M-! pkill -9 vim

[–] gornius@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

ZZ will save file though, the others won't. You meant ZQ.

[–] testifier@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

https://piped.video/watch?v=s5lj9YdKMz0

😵‍💫

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[–] thiccdiccnicc@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Bad bot

[–] IHateRedditAndSpez@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago

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[–] princess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago

Alt+PrtScn o

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does unplugging the machine not work?

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

I call my local energy provider and simply cancel my contract with immediate effect.

[–] onescomplement@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

https://youtu.be/4889ED2-ufw

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[–] onescomplement@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Good bot

[–] JohnJVaccaro@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

try...

:x

it will save your changes and exit vim If there are no changes to the then it just exits vim.

[–] Ducks@ducks.dev 1 points 2 years ago

til shift-z shift-z. am I stupid

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

⏻

[–] Just_Dominic@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago
  1. Ctrl + T + alt
  2. sudo reboot