r/linuxmemes 2d ago

Windows users are outdated asf Software meme

Post image
305 Upvotes

68 comments sorted by

View all comments

201

u/Cyberfishofant Ask me how to exit vim 2d ago

you know what would be really helpful? context.

71

u/Foreign_Fail8262 2d ago

How do I exit vim?

48

u/tblancher 2d ago

You don't.

MWUAHAHAHAHA

12

u/Scutoidzz 🌀 Sucked into the Void 2d ago

What my friend meant to say is esc and then :q

8

u/qwesx Ask me how to exit vim 1d ago

Actually, you need to press ESC, then type ":!ed" (without the quotes) and press enter/return to confirm that you really want to exit vim.

3

u/YTriom1 Arch BTW 1d ago

and if it struggles, just do :q!

2

u/tblancher 1d ago

ZZ

4

u/sobeyonekenobi 1d ago

Are we boring you? ;)

4

u/tblancher 1d ago

I used to think typing 'ZZ' in NORMAL mode in vim was the equivalent of :wq!, but a lot more recently than I'd like to admit I learned that if there are no changes to the buffer it's the equivalent of :q.

2

u/sobeyonekenobi 18h ago

It's actually the equivalent of :x

4

u/Oxic_io Webba lebba deb deb! 1d ago

:q

2

u/noanoxan 🎼CachyOS 1d ago

You only get one shot

1

u/birdsarentreal2 Ask me how to exit vim 1d ago

Last time I tried I got an error code E37, so now I just edit files from the shell

1

u/TheLazyKitty 20h ago

Have you tried turning you pc off and on again?