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IMHO, it's a horrible hack that is just broken. It's obscure and we need to rewrite it because it has a bad structure. ^X^Cquit^[ESC][ESC]^C

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[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The best way I know to quit vi is by turning off your computer

[–] Olap@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Why would you quit vim?

[–] master@lem.serkozh.me 1 points 1 year ago

you can also accomplish that by turning off city's electrical grid

[–] Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

I'm one of those people who think that Perl is a write-only language
-Linus torvalds

[–] jim@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"I can read this Perl scrip"t should translate to "I'm lying".

[–] a253040@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

I'm absolutely guilty of self-documenting code, but mostly because I'm sick of everyone else's lying comments.

[–] KnorrFG@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

IMHO it's a complex, temporary work around with a few issues.

Also vim > emacs

[–] magmaus3@szmer.info 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

ESC + :q!

ESC to enter normal mode (if you're in a different mode like insert) : (colon) to enter commands q to quit ! (or a) to use the quit command withiut keeping any changes

[–] sci@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

He's speaking the language of the gods..

[–] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

ESC + (shift) ZZ is faster and also saves your changes!

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 year ago

Hey, now. It is possible to write readable Perl code—it's just less interesting that way. 😜

[–] Gentoo1337@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

"The reason I use Perl is because I wanna write scripts that no one can read and no one can understand so that I can keep my job"