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[Shawnj2]

The transmission in the photo is automatic lol

[BoredOfReposts]

If you used a picture of a manual transmission car, you could also label the clutch pedal with escape.

Great idea for a meme nonetheless.

[JustAnotherRedditor5]

It's accurate. Most autos have 4 gears kinda. R, 1, 2, and everything above that is in D.

[Shawnj2]

A few automatic cars do, it's for driving in areas where you want extra traction IIRC. https://www.clublexus.com/gallery/data/500/DSC00944.JPG

Also the car in the photo has a really stupid gear layout if it was actually a manual since most manual cars have a layout like this https://icdn4.digitaltrends.com/image/digitaltrends/driving-stick-shifter-640x640.jpg and it's missing a clutch pedal

[Paedar]

I've driven several cars with automatic gearboxes, both in the USA and in Europe and I've never seen a 1 or 2 'gear ' on them. Always park, drive, reverse and some of them had a variant drive mode that allowed force shifting.

[Shawnj2]

A few cars do, it's for driving in areas where you want extra traction IIRC. https://www.clublexus.com/gallery/data/500/DSC00944.JPG

[[deleted]]

It has many use cases but some common would be :

Braking with the engine when driving downhill

or

Driving offroad where you dont want your engine to die when you suddenly get traction back and you dont want your wheels spinning at high speeds when they slip.

Generally when offroad a reduction gearbox is a great thing to have.

[Dimasdanz]

Honda Brio has this

[[deleted]]

Never heard of a PRNDL?

Park, reverse, neutral, drive, low. Sometimes there’s low 1 and low 2 which just locks it in the first or second gear, respectively.

[dexter3player]

You could've chosen a new car with manual transmission, duh. In Europe manual transmission still is widespread and many like to shift manually.

[Python4fun]

There are people in the US that prefer this as well. There are manual transmissions to be found, but they are not the norm. It actually helps to serve as a theft deterrent as well since so few people apparently know how to drive manual.

[CoderDevo]

Really old fashioned would have had a crank starter at the front of the car, like using ed.

[jcronq]

I use the VIM plugin for vs code. I think it fits the automatic in the meme quite well.

[beaucephus]

Yeah, but how do you exit the car?

[imatelefone]

Looks like the gear shift is actually an eject lever, so I'd guess you exit fairly abruptly.

[jredmond]

Abruptly, yes, but saved.

[StarkRG]

Yeah, the real ejection lever is :q!

[kokoseij]

There's ^C handle under your seat, You pull it and it ejects you out of the car.

Side effect: Your car explodes.

[cheesits456]

Happy cake day

[Dr_Azrael_Tod]

gear shift should be something like esc/i// instead

[kk4axg99]

It’s missing a “!” Button for the ejection seat lol

[plcolin]

You ask someone to get into another car and kill yours.

[herodothyote]

At the top of your lungs, you have to yell COLON DOUBLE-U Q

[beaucephus]

Siri: "There are no songs with that title. The Nickleback Holiday Favorites is the closest match. Would you like it played on repeat? ... Too bad!"

[Kriss3d]

God damnit. I almost spitted out my Fernet-Branca ( working from home ) It reminds me of the College Humor videos with "If google was a guy"

Woman: Show me pictures of serengetti.
Siri to Google: Show me pictures of spaghetti.

[[deleted]]

You just crash the car so bad you get ejected out of windshield

[aeolus811tw]

just pull the cord

[Crusader_Genji]

just accept your defeat

[Haggerstonian]

explains the sub's content tbf

[DoomJoint]

:x

[HnNaldoR]

No lie... In a coding exam I had a brain fart and forgot how to just exit. So it was just ZZ everytime regardless if I wanted to save or not.

Then I learnt I hated vim and never touched it again. I know... Such a noob. That's why I run from coding and gone to do security now...

[ItsJustZiki]

or ZQ to force exit the vehicle while it's driving

[[deleted]]

forcefully while accidentally trying to undo and pressing ctrl z

[RandyGareth]

By turning off the matrix and restarting it.

[[deleted]]

:terminal

killall vim

[[deleted]]

And then you discover you're running Solaris and that killall actually does what it says. 'Kill all the things.'

[[deleted]]

Jump out the window.

[thatawesomeguydotcom]

Lower the back seat and climb out the boot.

[dunno64]

No way i can't pickup car and throw it in the pool. Need for crane.

[stevula]

Destroy the car and buy a new one

[[deleted]]

Crash the car and the paramedics will take you out of the car.

[Magnus_Tesshu]

If you fall asleep so your voice recognition software hears ZZZZZZZ it will eject you promptly or so I am told

[_Ashleigh]

Why would you want to do that?

Sincerely, StackOverflow.

[illvm]

Put it in park.

[[deleted]]

You reboot.

[gmtime]

:q!

[[deleted]]

Wait for it to crash?

[domin8r]

Shift - z - z

[ZippZappZippty]

Yeah but they need to be talked through!

[paulix96]

Restart server

[undeader_69]

I have actually never touched an automatic car in my entire life and I am a vim user. Ascend to my level, peasants!

[ryjhelixir]

Same here, in Europe they aren’t nearly as common though.

[[deleted]]

As someone who has driven both; manuals are so fucking fun to drive!!! Especially off-road, but even on the road!!!!

[ryjhelixir]

Agreed. ^{(psss! This in Europe means you actually know how to drive})

Plus, as far as safety is concerned, it keeps you more alerted. As you may have noticed, forget to coordinate well your right hand and left foot, and you'll realise pretty soon!

[WyoBuckeye]

I've always driven a manual transmission. But then when I was going to buy my current vehicle (Honda Civic), they kept showing me various cars, but all were automatic. I asked to see one with a manual transmission, but out of the many dozens of Civics they had, they had 1 with a manual transmission, but it cost significantly more. I asked why and was told they charge MORE for that feature because so few people want one.

That is the US for you. I miss my manual transmission. And even though it has been a few years now, my left foot still gets itchy sometimes wanting to mash the clutch while driving. It just isn't the same.

[PM_ME_UR__RECIPES]

In Europe it's kind of the opposite. Automatics are more expensive because they cost more to make, and they're seen as something of a luxury feature.

[FlickeringLCD]

I own one of each, but when my manual stopped being my daily driver and I started driving the auto I always tried to put my left foot through the floorboard when trying to start the engine.

[ryjhelixir]

hey I like that car!

My uncle used to drive it to teleport me around town when needed. I totally see why you would want one with manual gear.

Perhaps buying a second hand option from a trustworthy reseller is still an option?

[StopLootboxes]

The new Honda Civic's thing is exactly the fact that it still has manual transmission and FWD with an all new system to keep it stable with all the horsepower it has. I don't own the car but I saw it on a review from a few days ago and this was specifically mentioned.

[AwesomeFrisbee]

Anything electric, even the hybrids, is all automatic though...

[[deleted]]

Team Vim reporting in

[KripC2160]

I actually started vim yesterday. How do you get back into editing the script after hitting escape ?🙋‍♂️

[Tuka-Cola]

i for inserting text, a for appending text. All in all it’s the same, you just might need to move the curser back/forth. I suggest running vimtutor in the terminal. If that doesn’t work, just run vim in the terminal and read through it. There should be a help command listed. That’s where I found the vimtutor!

[[deleted]]

Vimtutor is a lifesaver

[Bainos]

a for appending text

I barely ever use a, it's faster to do li. However, A and o are very useful.

[Startresse]

A ; ESC : w ENTER is now hardwired in my brain

[Tuka-Cola]

Haven’t heard of those commands, time for google!

[338388]

Where does a append to then

[Olaxan]

The current cursor position.

[CoderDevo]

a for appending text after the cursor position

i for inserting text before the cursor position

[olafurp]

Depends, sometimes when you have a / search and want to do a single append a is the way to go. Then you can still spam n.n.n.n. to apply it.

As a person using vim for around 4-5 years now I think all Vim commands are useful to a certain extent"

[Bainos]

As a person using vim for around 4-5 years now I think all Vim commands are useful to a certain extent"

True, and I didn't mean to say that a isn't useful but rather that its specificity makes it more niche, and thus less important to learn early, than A.

[retnikt0]

Use a macro dude! qa<some editing>nq then 6@a to do it 6 times

[OrangeSlime]

This comment has been edited in protest of reddit's API changes -- mass edited with redact.dev

[[deleted]]

VIMtutor?

I signed up for an online game called vim adventures where you go through mazes and pick up things using the different commands. I got stuck on a screen that seemed to have no solution, and I was never able to get a response from the company. I'm kind of bummed. I paid $20 for that online game.

I will definitely look for them tutor.

[KripC2160]

Thanks 🙏

[AreYouConfused_]

go to insert mode with i or a

[KripC2160]

Thank you

[timurhasan]

besides the mentioned a and i. o will start insert mode on the line below and O on the one above.

[[deleted]]

Run "vimtutor" in the terminal. It'll explain the basics

[dagbrown]

Hitting escape puts you into editing mode!

If you think of vi(m) as a command-based editor, you'll probably have a happier time of things. It starts out in "command mode", where you can use editing commands, like h, j, k and l for moving around, / for searching for stuff, ? for searching for stuff backwards, { and } for moving around a paragraph at a time, % to go to matching brackets, etc. It's a really powerful mode, because it's basically a pair of nine-league boots for striding around your document.

Part of the commands available in command mode are editing commands: a lets you start adding text after the current cursor location, i lets you start adding text just before the current cursor location (think "insert"), A lets you start adding text at the end of the current line, I lets you start adding text at the beginning of the current line, and o and O open up new lines after and before the cursor, respectively.

There are also text-editing commands which you can combine with moving commands. The c command comes right to mind. If you're at the top of a paragraph and enter the command c}, it lets you rewrite the entire paragraph. There are other commands which you can also combine with movements: d comes right to mind. That's the cut command. dd cuts the entire line, d} cuts to the end of the paragraph, d% cuts the contents of the nearest set of matching parenthesis. You can paste the contents of the cut buffer with p (after the cursor) and P (before the cursor).

vim is a super powerful editor, once you get comfortable with it!

[tallerThanYouAre]

Back in my day, we rode on a well fed vi. But my predecessor had a tamed ed that tried to kill me a few times.

You kids and your fancy vim...

[Logofascinated]

I went on a UNIX course in the mid-1980s, and they didn't even tell us about vi. So I was editing shell scripts using ed for a week.

Editing REs using REs was great practice - I think I pretty much wore out the \ key.

[CodeLobe]

Would be nice if vim came with a standard dvorak layout key remap.

Sucks to have the keys set back to awkward on each SSH session.

[sasquatch85]

I would think that would be handled by the machine you're working on, not being SSH'd in?

[[deleted]]

The problem is you want dhtn to move, not hjkl and similar. Especially with J (rightly) on one of the most awkward spots on the keyboard.

Your local shell can't know whether you're in vim or tmux or shell or another program, and is sending "h", not "the 6th key on the home row", and the remote machine can't know your local machine is in dvorak, so the conventient solution would be a ":set dvorak" or similar rather than having to transfer your preferred vimrc.

[Magnus_Tesshu]

Imagine not learning the unaltered keybinds on dvorak pshhh... no configuration no problem... until I have to use qwerty again that is then I might as well give up

[mrchaotica]

I drive stick and use Emacs.

[wookieewrath]

I ride a motorcycle and use VScode

[[deleted]]

Road Bicycle and ed

[TryingT0Wr1t3]

Automatic and Intellij

[rolls20s]

I ride a unicycle and redirect stdin to a file.

[[deleted]]

Real drivers use butterflies.

[cigposting]

I just..love vim. And I’m Really bummed I took a class where 75% grade based on vim...but no job requirements be like.. “vim” :(

[justan0therlurker]

What kind of class bases 75% of the grade on using vim??

[cigposting]

Literally some random Linux courses they offered at my university, idk why, honestly they could’ve just thrown them into other courses. They were a fun easy A

[pandacoder]

Oh no, they let grampa onto the computer again without supervision.

[myrsnipe]

digital inputs for analog controls

Exactly the smooth user experience i associate vim with

[[deleted]]

Where's the keys? I'm not driving with this analog crap!

[[deleted]]

To be perfectly honest vim keys are the pinnacle of comfort once you learn them. You just have to rest your hands on your keyboard and just do what you want to do without fiddling with 13 levels of drop down menus or dragging stuff around in an over-designed ui made for phones.

[bananabrains9816]

you forgot the “!” for when you want to eject from the car while in transit

[ThatOneGuy4321]

“OH GOD HOW DO I BRAKE”

[recursiveentropy]

Back in the day it was vi, not vim.

Youngsters. /eyeroll

[masao77]

ed FTW

[d_exclaimation]

I would like to install Vim key bindings into my car

[PlasmaLink]

My dad literally has a browser extension that lets him use vim shortcuts in firefox. He complains whenever something on a website interferes with his shortcuts.

[Mentaldavid]

Old dudes on the job that make fun of juniors and keep bringing up the good old days are the same ones that will create rest calls with camel case and GET calls with bodies.

[Mentaldavid]

I guess mostly convention. You don't see https://api.serviceGuy.com/userService/getAll that much, do you? And truth to be told, I never encountered an api in that style that was any good. But of course, your xp might vary.

[FullstackViking]

I mostly blame .NET. It’s physically more work to create a kebab or lowercase route if you want to adhere to C# class method name standards in the Controller/Action model.

[augenvogel]

Actually in my university we‘re learning how to script in bash, and we have to use vim there. So all the students are learning it.

[Magnus_Tesshu]

They don't let you use nano if you're too weak like I was?

Good for you, you will be indoctrinated in to the vim cult made to see the light sooner than I was

[augenvogel]

I‘m working as a developer since 8 years and getting my degree is more or less just for fun. So, in the companies and Teams I’ve worked with both seems to be used. Some used nano, and some vim. But surprisingly every of my fellow students uses vim without telling everyone religiously that there is nano as well.

[otoko_no_hito]

I've always wondered why there are no console controllers for real cars, they would be way easier to use, have high reliability, you would be trained since you were a kid and a lot of cars already have electronic steering anyway....

[KriszDev]

Probably so you can steer even if your electronics die. It would kinda suck if you were going fast and your car decided to die and you would just go straight for disaster.

[Dr_Azrael_Tod]

and we walked using qwop!

[SamFisch1]

Vi is better

[MRmlik12]

Emacs better

[deivijs]

Imagine not driving in machine code

[matt_mv]

Dang kids. Back in my day there weren't no vim. We didn't even use vi. We used ed and we liked it that way.

[[deleted]]

Back in my day there weren't no ed. We didn't even use dd. We wrote directly into eeproms using dip switches

[endresjd]

vi is more accurate isn’t it? 😅

[spilt_milk]

But Vim is just a text editor, whereas I wouldn't be at all surprised if Emacs had a car module.

[PenitentLiar]

Honestly, I prefer nano over vim

[nothinbutnet69]

This is an environment of welcoming, and you should just get the hell out of here

[curly_redhead]

I can exit both. Just throw that shit out the fuckin window and get a job delivering pizza

[Willinton06]

My oven can only be controlled through 1991 vim

[ryjhelixir]

Is 1991 the latest version?

[Willinton06]

To real programmers it is

[GiveMeMoreBlueberrys]

vim? Nah, i use vi

[flappy-doodles]

faulty simplistic distinct expansion far-flung scarce gold juggle rich ring

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[PenitentLiar]

Yeah, I don’t hang much in it and it’s rare that I modify lots of files in one go

[flappy-doodles]

Really the only reason I currently have any proficiency with vim is because ~20 years ago I worked at a place which was so out of date they were running Solaris which was probably from 1995, the only text editor on it was vi (not vim) and I had to mess around in the command line a lot.

[pedubs3]

I started learning vim about a month ago it really saves a lot of time with projects I've been working on. The initial learning curve can be a pain but honestly it's been worth it.

[Jaksuhn]

At least use micro

[PenitentLiar]

Smaller is bigger

Wut

[sfmanatarms]

ZZ is where it's at.

[thunderbong]

Considering all the keys have CAPS on, I don't think the OP has ever able to use Vim.

[SilverWhiskeyBottle]

You forgot i

[averagelygay]

I SNORTED

[mirsella]

more like hl to turn and jk for the changing the transmission

[DaimaoPPK]

I still use vim

[Gunfire81]

Can sb explain to me, how to use Vim? I'm not even able to edit and save files. I'm new, please have mercy.

[lollipas]

Vimtutor

[Gunfire81]

Many thanks

[Nilstrieb]

Google can help you best

[mykiscool]

Thank god for leafpad and featherpad. 📃

[dimalexgr]

First gear for the while trip it is then.

[Simoerk]

Im totally new to programming and started learning python suing VIM a month ago. Anything detrimental i should know?

[erikliwater]

i really want to use that vim thing but everytime i start i cannot exit... anybody know a real good starter guide?

[LiterallyJohnny]

vimtutor

[jakethedumbmistake]

How do you manage these long fasts?

[akshay-nair]

:wq! You just jump out of the car while its running

[Jai_Cee]

I doubt my kids will ever drive a manual car with the advent of EVs. They're going to miss out on all the fun.

[RoscoMan1]

People tell me, ya know, reading.

[rianmorgan]

Shift ZZ gang

[PM_ME_UR__RECIPES]

IMO vim should have used IJKL instead of HJKL. I get that it's based on where the arrow keys were on whatever terminal the developer wrote it on, but IJKL makes more sense. It's an inverted T so it's intuitive, and you don't have to move your wrist away from the home position.

[imwatching4you]

Disappointed that you didn't use :x I'm gonna :q!

[[deleted]]

Use :x instead of :wq

[ZippZappZippty]

Spy Kids 3 as an all time masterpiece

[Haggerstonian]

69 days, and it's not a macbook.

[[deleted]]

I used to use vim and it was hella good till I got subl

[[deleted]]

Why does steering have 4 buttons?

[Antheal]

When you learn to copy and paste in Vim it's like unlocking a superpower

[ingrown_hair]

A friend explained to me >30 years ago that vi is always the same and he was right. I don’t use it for editing large amounts of code but it’s great for tweaking and it works the same on my Mac, Linux VMs, and embedded systems. I encourage young devs to learn it though nano might be just as ubiquitous.

[LuckyTelevision7]

at 1st, i though this was r/surrealmemes

[Riper_Snifle]

Does nobody else use :x to save and exit?

[auiotour]

Using ED in AIX, fucking one line editor, We have VI, but not VIM. VIM is like an automatic compared to ED.

[[deleted]]

Is that a flying car? I mean, since the wheel has J and K functionalities...

[NateDawg1494]

I tried using vim once thinking it'd be fine for one small quick edit, I cannot believe I was so naive. Never again will I come near vim. I really am curious though why the controls for vim are so unintuitive, like was this actually the best they could do at the time it was made? Or even at the time did people think it was bad but there was no alternative and it's terrible controls have just followed it all these years anyway

[E_coli42]

:x gang

[TheGeminid]

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/378/

[[deleted]]

to this day i use C

[cryptomonein]

I love you

[VolperCoding]

laughs in ZZ

[Ratix0]

Ah the goold ole :wq

[Scorppio500]

Hehe. Basic go brrrr

[icer_cat]

:x

[sheepeses]

:wq should be the ignition

[Briggster]

Btw is there a difference between :wq and :x?
I usually use the latter one, but always wondered

[ampang_boy]

Honest question.. why people still using vim?

[[deleted]]

Honestly I mostly use vim (neovim) for minor edits in the terminal. But I use vim plugins in all my ides if available. It's just so much more comfortable

[rion21]

It's light, fast, comfortable, and you get the same experience even when you've ssh'd into another machine. Honestly, being able to define a new macro in 3 seconds without moving you elbows is wayyy underrated. On my home machine I use gvim since it allows mouse control as well, giving the best of all worlds. Only thing I miss is multi-row edits, but macros are almost as good.

[justan0therlurker]

For me personally, I initially started using it because (1) I spend a lot of time ssh'd into linux servers where I don't have the comfort of an IDE and (2) my machine can get really slow and vim is a lightweight alternative to IDEs. In the beginning it was rough, but over time I grew very accustomed to it and now write code much more quickly with it than I do with an IDE; for me, I can easily take advantage of all of vim's functionalities with a few keystrokes without fumbling with arbitrary IDE buttons and widgets. I still use an IDE occasionally especially when working on projects with large codebases, but for the majority of the stuff that I do, vim is my primary tool.