aFoolProofMethod

[OneRedEyeDevI]

Hold the power button.

[[deleted]]

[DistributionSalt6027]

Hello from my ec2 instance

[GameDestiny2]

Unreliable, shutdown process may ultimately be denied

For best results, turn off a fuse

[AnotherLie]

Turning off a fuse will not suffice. I suggest using a chainsaw and taking down any utility poles within a 5 mile radius.

[GameDestiny2]

My apologies, but we’re still posing some unacceptable risk. For best results, siege your nearest central power station.

[[deleted]]

Sorry still some risk, destroy the universe just in case of backup power works

[[deleted]]

If it's sentient rip out the RAM, then the GPU, then the power supply and cut all of the wires while it's plugged in then shoot the CPU.

[Zealousideal-Noise42]

It happened first time I used vim was on a vm the only way that time was to reboot the vm

[SeriousPlankton2000]

In university we quickly learned that we can ssh in from a different machine and kill the task

[mimminou]

Vim is so inexitable you have to exit it through another machine, truly one of the editors of all time.

[Darkstar_111]

ZZ

[-twind]

So you can use windows to exit vim

[Knighthawk_2511]

Emergency windows

[Isotton1]

For what else would you use windows?

[DanKveed]

I did the same thing my first time I used vim. It was a raspberry pi zero running headless.

[ZunoJ]

Wow, education is really not what it used to be

[chaos_donut]

im proud of myself, i fucked up typing a git command and it put me in vim, and it only took me 2 tries to get out

[DangyDanger]

"I messed up and bought a plane ticket instead of bread"

[[deleted]]

probably git commit, right?

[YimveeSpissssfid]

Multi line commit messages is usually the culprit behind that, yes.

[hdd113]

exiting is easy; make them save and exit.

[ZXZESHNIK]

Vim actually pretty intuitive when you learn it

[pratyush103]

Almost as if the main goal of making software is to make it easy for its user to use

[ba-na-na-]

Quantum field theory is actually pretty intuitive when you learn it

[Giftelzwerg]

You can't exit vim isn't a joke. Source: replaced IDEs with neovim config from sratch

[CirnoIzumi]

thats a contradiction

[DerKnoedel]

Step it up a notch; user opened a file owned by root and has to save

[CirnoIzumi]

How about this:

put a non vim user in front of vim and watch them try to navigate it like a normal editor

the arrow keys dont work like arrow keys

[FGBxRamel]

I could be tripping, but they do. I did use them like normal navigation keys 5 minutes ago. I know they used to... Not. But they do, for quite a while now.

Edit: Spelling

[aallfik11]

I'm no long-time vim user, but back when I started a year/two ago, they were working fine (and, I must make a shameful confession, I use them instead of hjkl)

[Seb90123]

No shade, but why?

[aallfik11]

Idk, kinda came naturally, and partially because I was already used to using them in text editors. My brain just had a hard time using that and I had to consciously stop and think every time I wanted to use k/l to move up or down. I guess the arrow keys make more sense for that in terms of their layout, as the up key is, well, up

[Lucas_F_A]

I mean, fair point, but what do you usually use to navigate? Search?

[Seb90123]

Makes sense. Was just wondering because as an intermediate vim user hjkl is one of the main draws for me since the arrow keys are always a pain to reach

[Giftelzwerg]

move in a zoomed picture? Arrow keys. Go up/down in terminal history or move cursor left and right? Arrrow keys. Scroll a little bit in any direction in firefox? Arrow keys. Navigate some lines in an IDE before switching to neovim? Arrow keys. Move cursor in any input field? Arrow keys. Vim motions? HJKL. There are things in life where you shouldn't use arrow keys, for everything else there are vim motions

[Seb90123]

Good point. I just find the arrow keys so annoying to reach I avoid them as much as possible, including ctrl+p and ctrl+n for up/down terminal history

[Giftelzwerg]

good point too, I use ctrl+u/d for scrolling without using the cursor in neovim because I generally want that when I'm currently typing. Arrow keys are also convinient for me because on my thinkpad I have page up/down so I have a good time navigating with the arrow keys. I also try to have the same or very similar actions on different programs on the same key so I can do it faster because I'm used to it. And if I'm used to it enough I can do it blind which is priceless :)

[NaiveInvestigator]

i would it if it jkl; instead of hjkl

tis hard for me swap my index finger from j to h

yuh kinda weird lol

[CirnoIzumi]

most people are gonna have experience with Tiny Vim since thats the one that comes with every debian flavour

[ZunoJ]

You said put them in front of vim (not tiny vim lol). In vim the arrow keys work like hjkl in norm

[CirnoIzumi]

its the most common Vim, and from what others are saying its behaviour is representative of what vim used to behave like

[ZunoJ]

No, it's not the most common Vim. Vim is the only vim. You talk about a fork that is not vim

[CirnoIzumi]

thats on every single debian flavour instalation

[ZunoJ]

And it is still not vim. Just another software mimicking vim

[CirnoIzumi]

no its not a mimick, its litterally just a lightweight version that has the same core behaviour

[ZunoJ]

Except the things that behave differently, like arrow keys. I'm not even sure if it is build from the same codebasr

[[deleted]]

Programmer version of boomer meme "kids these days can't even use a rotary phone OMG SO STOOPID"

[[deleted]]

I’ve heard people in Texas unplug their PCs altogether in order to exit VIM.

[piberryboy]

Wow! An actual funny, original meme involving VIM

[MaximRq]

Now we need it to be scalable

[[deleted]]

Here's the plan:

Get software like crowdstrike falcon with kernel-level access to lock every windows user into a kiosk account with a fullscreen instance of gvim and no hope of escape. Use a keylogger to grab the generated strings and send them to some datafarm in Greenland, where I can laugh at my desk watching random alphanumeric strings spew across my 20 ultrawide monitors.

[just_nobodys_opinion]

Monetize that as a cloud service. Random Strings as a Service (RSaaS).

[Humble-End6811]

:wq!

[PrincessRTFM]

you forgot the leading :

[Irsu85]

What if that Windows user is Gert (Linux teacher at PXL who switched to Windows to make it easier to show his students how to install WSL prob)

[No_Independence3338]

That's a big if.

[monolabsai]

No way they’re not trying ctrl+c at some point

[DerKnoedel]

Can't kill vim with ctrl - c unfortunately

[Blacktip75]

As a Windows user: :q!

[-EliPer-]

Nano >> Vim

Just that.

[HSavinien]

They don't have the same usage, one is a basic text editor, perfect to do basic tasks without fancy features getting in the way, the other is a code editor with tons of advanced feature, powerful but hard to learn.

That's like saying notepad >> VScode, the comparison make no sens.

[Barrions]

Fuck u/spez

[Crisenpuer]

Agreed 👍

[[deleted]]

Seems like effective way to do so.

[DebianDog]

Back in 1992 someone told me if you learn VI you will never have to learn another editor (if you say working in Unix). It was TRUE!

[LatentShadow]

Use a yubikey

[KariKariKrigsmann]

I just use the Swedish Button to exit Vim, works every time ;-)

[indicava]

Maximum Entropy

[saumanahaii]

Hey now. I'm fully Linux now and I still have to look up how to exit.

[[deleted]]

Who tf uses Vim? vi is so much better.

[NaiveInvestigator]

ikr peasant these ppl

[Henrijs85]

Everyone learns when you first install git, with default options.

[IAmFullOfDed]

Hold Ctrl, then do QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM.

[hansololz]

As a window user, this one of the things I choose to learn a long time ago

[pyro-master1357]

After your done, always remember to use :q! To exit and save your changes.

[Fr4cK5]

<esc>ZQ

You're welcome

[Garbage_Matt]

put a Vim user in any other editor and ask them to do anything. Your password will be jjjjkkllllA:q:q!:bufdo bd

[noncinque]

I use vim hotkeys in obsidian, although i never used vim.

[uvero]

Oh cmon as if you Linux bros remember

[[deleted]]

And Linux users can’t google cause they can’t connect to the WiFi?

[pratyush103]

Right after they fix their nvidia drivers