Biblical VIM instructions
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I use vim sometimes to edit config files in my Fedora machine... For my simple needs it is easy and much better/faster/accessible than gedit...
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." ― Gerald Weinberg
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I use vim sometimes to edit config files in my Fedora machine... For my simple needs it is easy and much better/faster/accessible than gedit...
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." ― Gerald Weinberg
I use
nano, with a lot of that heritage, for simple editing on my server which doesn't run a GUI.Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I use
nano, with a lot of that heritage, for simple editing on my server which doesn't run a GUI.Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
After a brief foray in the Linux world, I decided I'm getting too old for that and will stick to using Windows and Notepad++. :-\
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It's been a long time, but I used VI about 30 years ago, during the time when we had Unix-based workstations for development. If I remember correctly, ESC :q! will discard all your edits! To commit them first, it'd be ESC :wq! So it's actually a demonic parody of the KJV. :-D
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It's been a long time, but I used VI about 30 years ago, during the time when we had Unix-based workstations for development. If I remember correctly, ESC :q! will discard all your edits! To commit them first, it'd be ESC :wq! So it's actually a demonic parody of the KJV. :-D
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The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.From Szurkefarkas's reply:
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This inspired me to ask the following from ChatGPT: Write a biblical verse satire in the style of the Monthy Python and the Holy Grail's Holy Hand Grenade scene that explains how to exit Vim: And the programmer didst cry out, saying, "How do I exit this cursed Vim?" And lo, there came a voice from the heavens, saying, "Verily I say unto thee, thou shalt type these words: 'ESC' key, followed by ':', and then 'q!'. This shall exit thee from Vim and free thee from its clutches." But the programmer didst protest, saying, "But what if I accidentally hit 'wq' instead of 'q!' and save my changes?" And the voice from the heavens replied, "Then thou art truly screwed, my child." And with that, the programmer didst throw down his keyboard in frustration and weep bitterly.
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It's been a long time, but I used VI about 30 years ago, during the time when we had Unix-based workstations for development. If I remember correctly, ESC :q! will discard all your edits! To commit them first, it'd be ESC :wq! So it's actually a demonic parody of the KJV. :-D
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The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.My standard text editor in the DOS days used to ask me: "There are unsaved changes! Do you want to exit anyway?" Thankful to be warned, I hammered on 'N', No!! When switching to Windows, the standard text editor gave a similar warning: "There are unsaved changes! Do you want to save them before exiting?" From old habit, I hammered on 'N', No!! I didn't keep a log, but I am sure that the total amount of work lost would add up to at least a man-week, maybe two or three, before I had learned my lesson.
