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[-] PlexSheep@feddit.de 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I really don't get the exit vim meme anymore. It's just two key presses, trivial. When you hit <C-c> it tells you exactly what to do. Anyone stuck in vom either does not read or has no idea how to use a terminal.

Edit: I'm German, I meant vim.

[-] hollunder@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 10 months ago

Yeah vom is easy. Have you tried exiting vim tho?

[-] Dicska@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

Whenever I have to edit a text file when nauseous, I just vom it.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

I mean how hard could it be, you just press some random letters until it exits

[-] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago

Vim is unintuitive. If you are a new linux CLI user and follow some tutorials that tells you to run vim, modify something then save and exit, it can be daunting.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 10 months ago

^^ The kind of person who doesn't remember what it's like being new at the CLI.

or…

Linux is so easy, n00b. You're just stupid.

[-] PlexSheep@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

I hope the first one. But the effect is real, stuff you know already was easy and stuff you don't is hard. I'm feeling it with my migration to proxmox, it's hard.

[-] Dasnap@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

:x simple as. Vim was the first terminal text editor I used so I'm biased.

[-] Windex007@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

ESC : q ENTER (assuming you haven't modified the buffer)?

What's the two key press exit pattern?

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 points 10 months ago

vom stand for "Vi, only maybe".

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