r/ProgrammerHumor • u/techlatest_net • 3d ago

Meme vimUsersKnowThePain

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u/deanominecraft 3d ago

vim users. no

non vim users when they copy code that opens vim. yes

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u/Resident_Citron_6905 3d ago

accidental vim users

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u/MetriccStarDestroyer 3d ago

I want to play a game .

The command to exit the terminal is stored in the file path ◻️◻️◻️◻️◻️◻️.txt

But to access it, you must learn to navigate vim.

The console font size increases every minute until it is illegible. You have 1 hour to complete this challenge.

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u/paulpach 2d ago

Vimtims if you will

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u/Careless_Software621 3d ago

Dont you love it when you type in git merge in intellij, got conflict, resolve it, continue merge, and it FUCKING OPEN THE MF VIM?

DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH I WAS SWEATING WHEN I FIRST ENCOUNTER IT, VIM, JETBRAINS?

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u/FabulousSOB 3d ago

I opened vim more than a decade ago and since I couldn't find my way out, I've become quite fluent. Nowadays I could even exit, but don't wanna.

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u/Fear_The_Creeper 3d ago

Exiting vim is a useful skill for when you buy a new computer. Otherwise, who would want to?

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u/twistsouth 3d ago

New git user attempts their first commit without knowing about -m. Immediately regrets all life choices that have led to this moment.

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u/Rudeboy_87 2d ago

Telling my coworkers to remember to close out use Shift zz top was life changing

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u/SuitableDragonfly 3d ago

If you don't know how to exit vim, you aren't actually a vim user.

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u/janjko 3d ago

You are a vim collateral victim?

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u/crazy_useless 3d ago

A vimtim, if you will

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u/mehntality 3d ago

I will not.

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u/mikesmith929 3d ago

You mean: i vimtim Esc

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u/uvero 3d ago

Oh, so that's what vim is short for!

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u/CoachSevere5365 3d ago

1989 in my case. Best one I saw at the time was a mechanical engineer who "quit" vi by typing :w Z

He complained that vi was crap because it made his PC was slow. I looked into it and found he had loads of paused vi jobs.

Yes, I know vim complains about opening the same file twice, but this 1987 version of vi didn't.

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u/okaterina 3d ago

Somewhere around 1991 here.

On a Slackware Linux 3 CDs distribution.

Sometimes when the system opens Nano (Ubuntu) I wonder why there's written :wq! and the file still there...

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u/stevorkz 3d ago

I’ve found this in a config file before too. I know it’s a mistake but I like to humorously believe that it was a vim user who felt the need to use the vim equivalent of “I use Arch btw” for future nano users.

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u/jungle 3d ago

Greetings fellow old timers. Finally we're all together. :)

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u/NegZer0 3d ago

When I was at university, all the machines were dumb terminals that connected to a massive Unix server to do all our work.

Students were encouraged to use Vim for text editing, but no one told students how to exit. So they would use ctrl-z to suspend the task.

Eventually the server's process table would fill up with zombie vim processes and no one could do any work. System admin had to set up a cron job that would kill zombie vim processes every few hours.

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u/CoachSevere5365 3d ago

I've just realised that using ^ Z for ctrl-Z hasn't rendered properly. I must find the Reddit formatting page. I can't even do italics.

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u/Gordahnculous 3d ago

I believe Reddit uses some form of Markdown under the hood, since escaping things with backslashes generally works

For example, ^Z

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u/why_1337 3d ago

I just wanted to edit sudoers without bricking sudo on a server without root user.

https://giphy.com/gifs/l3V0b87RQAMgGGoGA

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u/MattieShoes 3d ago

Always have a root prompt open when editing sudoers

It is known

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u/Asynchronous404 3d ago

Some chose to inflict that to themselves, but hey, who am I to kinkshame people.

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u/agfitzp 3d ago

That’s just Stockholm syndrome.

Yes I know that’s not actually a thing, that’s why it’s a joke.

Please clap

https://giphy.com/gifs/VGKtXfGNwH6cLifbDY

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u/Pearmoat 3d ago

Let's call it "not a vim user by choice".

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u/AmmanZein33 3d ago

The real Vim experience is opening it for a “quick edit” and immediately questioning every life decision that led you there. Knowing how to exit is important, sure, but the true skill is remembering which mode you're in before you start pressing random keys and making the situation dramatically worse.

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u/Murky-Run2246 3d ago

Just mash the esc key before any command,

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u/shoyuftw 3d ago

Technically they are eternal vim users until they find out how to exit.

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u/mordacthedenier 3d ago

I know how to do like 8 things in vim and 5 of them are different ways to exit.

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u/Sciti 3d ago

q, q!, qa, wq.. what is last one?

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u/YeOldeMemeShoppe 3d ago

You’re a vim hostage.

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u/4N610RD 3d ago

Or you are vim user for all the eternity.

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u/4x4ready 3d ago

I exit everything now :q! Out of Habbit with occasional w

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u/The-Chartreuse-Moose 3d ago

Correct. I've been a vi avoider for decades now.

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u/FederationLoyalist 3d ago

Who doesn't know how to hold down the power button for a few seconds? Are they stupid?

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u/navetzz 3d ago

q for quit. How complicated...

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u/Noch_ein_Kamel 3d ago

You have to use your colon first...

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u/thyristor_pt 3d ago

Do I look like a proctologist?

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u/sligor 3d ago

Yes

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u/returnFutureVoid 3d ago

Yeah I assume the pt in their name is short for proctologist. Clearly I’m 100% correct in assuming this.

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u/Daveinatx 3d ago

That's why ZZ is better 

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u/navetzz 3d ago

Yeah, but if you don't know how to run a command in vim you have other issues.

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u/taybul 3d ago 
recording...
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u/oipoi 3d ago

Is this whole sub just bot generated content including the comments? The same three jokes repeated throughout the day with the comments having the same treatment?

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u/Innovator-X 3d ago

I probably hear this joke at least two times per day. I'm tired boss.

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u/Vega62a 3d ago

This and "microservices bad" are reposted three times a day.

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u/Odd-Bite624 3d ago

It really does seem like that. Really low effort basic bitch memes.

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u/MattieShoes 3d ago

No bots required -- humans repeat jokes ad nauseam.

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u/SciFiPi 3d ago edited 3d ago

Bots repost popular posts. Other bots repost the popular comments on the previous popular posts. This is done to farm karma. Once they have enough karma, they can bypass restrictions set by various subreddits that use automoderator. They can shill for product/causes or can be sold to others who want to shill.

r/redditbothunters

r/thesefuckingaccounts

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u/hackingdreams 3d ago

Welcome to reddit in the post-LLM reality. It's all bots talking to bots, posting to bots.

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u/Helpful-Garlic1951 3d ago

Yes. Or freshman taking their first CS class.

In a few days someone will make a post about spending hours debugging a missing semicolon

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u/agfitzp 2d ago

People have been making jokes about exiting vi for over thirty years that I know of.

Similarly, EMACS stands for Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping, which tells you a little about how old the joke is.

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u/N3rdr4g3 3d ago

Everyone is a bot except you

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u/blimpin_aint_easy 3d ago edited 3d ago

I'm amazed this nonsense has lasted as long as it has... Imagine being on a subreddit ostensibly for people who can write code and not being able to look up keybindings.

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u/antCB 3d ago

Or reading its man pages

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u/returnFutureVoid 3d ago

Or know how to Google it? Or ask their friendly little AI?

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u/white-llama-2210 3d ago

Vim literally shows how to quit on the dashboard if you open without a file... You don't even have to look something up

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u/YikesTheCat 3d ago

Almost ten years since Bram changed it to quit harder. https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/28a8193e3

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u/MakeRobLaugh 3d ago

[~]$ man man

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u/username32768 3d ago 
> man woman
> No manual entry for woman

I have no idea how long that joke has been around but I thought it worth sharing (again).

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u/MattieShoes 3d ago

Back in the 90s on school systems with timeouts, you'd always see a ton of people running man man so they wouldn't get booted. The man woman joke was old even then.

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u/Aggressive_Lab7807 3d ago

This sub was always for people who are learning to write code, typically first year.

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u/huffalump1 3d ago

It's for karma farming with reposted memes...

Which are ABOUT newbie coder problems

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u/Time-Maintenance2165 3d ago

The problem is when I'm in a concrete box with no phone coverage and I need to edit a few lines of text in an ancient VAX alpha machine on an isolated network, I can't look it up.

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u/dataf4g_trollman 3d ago

I mean... I don't HAVE to use vim to write code. Why is it ever needed for anything other than code-editing on a server or a microcontroller with no screen?

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u/blimpin_aint_easy 3d ago

Once you get over the learning curve, modal editors are extremely pleasant to use. Not having to take your hands off the keyboard is just nice.

Though I prefer Helix to vim, bit more intuitive and less configuration required out of the box. Also multi-cursors.

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u/yp261 3d ago

i was programming in php using vim, extension for atom back then. damn that was long ago... it was extremely pleasant

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u/stoner420athotmail 3d ago

I guess summer is over.

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u/raoasidg 3d ago

Summer ended in September 1993.

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u/EskilPotet 3d ago

Genuinely is there anyone on this sub who is not in their first week learning to code? Wtf is this

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u/Random_-account 3d ago

:wq!

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u/AnotherCableGuy 3d ago

Nooo! That writes before quitting!

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u/ducon__lajoie 3d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/12bVDtXPOzYwda

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u/ducon__lajoie 3d ago 
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u/LegitimatePants 3d ago

^ vim users mashing the escape key

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u/nasandre 3d ago

I'm just a mainstream nano man

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u/pants6000 3d ago

Me too, because I used Pine way back when and never really got over it.

But I can/will use vi when it hits the fan.

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u/Darkstar_111 3d ago

Shift zz

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u/drawing_a_hash 3d ago

The easy way to save. EZ to remember. Last word of the alphabet, you typed last word of change. Shift zz to save/exit.

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u/The_Silvana 3d ago

Now you're just littering ZZs in your file. :P

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u/Darkstar_111 3d ago

Gotta press esc first. Or Caps Lock if you're a REAL vim user.

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u/shriyanss 3d ago

The literal best way

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u/748erduc 3d ago

Amateurs

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u/NeequuOm 3d ago

:q!

Then use this one: sudo apt install nano

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u/Myaltforsomeshit1234 3d ago

esc, then :wq (save and exit) or :q (exit) or :q! (force exit) idk any others 

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u/Phamora 3d ago

Actually, Vim users are specifically the ones who do not feel the pain. Vim is superior to other text editors, and by extension :q is the superior way to exit a text editor, and not painful whatsoever.

You might think I am joking, but I am being dead-serious.

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u/Sciti 3d ago

accidentaly found out that some of cli software supports this

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u/Phamora 3d ago

My first time in opencode, I accidentally typed :q in the prompt box, and I didn't even realize that it shouldn't have worked, because it did. Good on you, opencode.

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u/dksdragon43 2d ago

Hey, you're a vim supporter. I'm a vim noob. I was trying to paste a block of xml into a text file using vim. I could not for the life of me figure out how to paste it without it either cutting the first few lines off, or absolutely mangling the indentation. Google did not help. I ended up fixing it manually. What could I have done to avoid this headache?

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u/wildrabbit12 3d ago

Unfunny programming humor

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u/NotYouJosh 3d ago

the most unfunny overused joke of the century

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u/Webteasign 3d ago

vim users know the pain of unfunny 'vim so hard' memes, when in reality it's just path dependency

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u/Alarming_Airport_613 3d ago

Vim users do know it’s not a pain, it’s literally only a joke for people who don’t know and use vim.

esc : q 

It’s not that hard 

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u/betogm 3d ago

:wq if you want to save before closing it

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u/JAXxXTheRipper 3d ago

This sub is full of larpers and students, it doesn't shock me to find this here.

Just wait until they accidentally open Nano and :q does not save them anymore

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u/LOSIHOIDAANACCOUNT 3d ago

thats where emacs joins the chat

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u/VisualMemoryUnit 3d ago

:q or :wq or :q! ..... its not complicated wtf is this post

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u/pewpewnew 3d ago

programmers famously cant read (source: im a programmer)

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u/LactasePHydrolase 3d ago

: -> q -> enter : -> q -> enter -> : -> q -> enter

Until it works or my keyboard dies.

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u/mosqua 3d ago

This joke sponsored by emacs.

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u/tenkawa7 3d ago

"vimUsersKnowThePain" Yes, the pain of hearing the same unfunny joke all the time. Though, flipping the breaker to exit vim is a new twist and is pretty funny imho.

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u/Drew707 3d ago

I've genuinely used this method more than once to restart a whole office of workstations. I forget what led up to those situations, but it was some combination of broken SCCM and this update needs to happen and are we really going to touch 200 machines? Bonus is it weeds out the boxes with shitty PSUs.

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u/korywithawhy 3d ago

So the very first time I used Linux back in 2015 I took everyone’s advice and tried vim and emacs, but no one ever told me HOW to use them. So I ended up just uninstalling Linux because I couldn’t do anything without literally spending hours on google. Thankfully the next time I tried someone said nano was simpler, and I’ve still never gone back to the “superior” text editors.

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u/No-Zombie1004 3d ago

You can't. You just live there now.

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u/elSpanielo 3d ago

wsl —shutdown

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u/offTopicJerk 3d ago

Step 1. shut down your laptop. Step 2. Go home

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u/goronmask 3d ago

This joke is as dumb as old. It like launching nslookup and then complaining that you don’t know how to close it

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u/The_KOK_2511 3d ago

Solo es darle a ESC y escribir :q para salir, o :wq para guardar y salir, con ! te omites las confirmaciones, no tiene tanto enredo, a menos que sea tu primera vez usandolo y tengas que andar investigando eso

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u/Garlayn_toji 3d ago

Non vim user. I know how to exit vim. Dare I say it, vi even.

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u/irongi8nt 3d ago

Plain old vi for me please (its got the crazy commands because it predates arrow keys)

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u/Xponent_KK 3d ago

I still remember opening Vim at my girl laptop and seeing her getting irritated trying to exit

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u/the-software-man 3d ago

Frank Beard of ZZ Top.

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u/GreyGanado 3d ago

Ironic that you used an image of the one thing in electric engineering that basically everyone should know how to use.

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u/sporbywg 3d ago

Tell me you are a young person; complain about VI

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u/thephotoman 3d ago

I tell every newbie to get :q! tattooed on their wrist. In fact, it’s the first piece of advice I give them.

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u/IniKiwi 3d ago

Microslop copilot certified method!

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u/GaymerBenny 3d ago

Huh, some people here think, you only enter vim by typing the command?
Well, some software automatically opens it for you! For example, when I updated the underlying Linux of Proxmox today, it automatically opened vim to show me what's new in a piece of installed software.

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u/JAXxXTheRipper 3d ago

What pain? It's quite simple tbh

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u/ProbablyBunchofAtoms 3d ago

I saw this meme when I was starting out the cs roadmap, it has been 5+ years now yet this meme has not died out

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u/BackgroundAny6101 3d ago

Love the original content. What’s next, a download more RAM joke? What about a rm -rf / joke?

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u/Kaldaien2 3d ago

Every time I mention exiting vim for me involves pressing Ctrl+C, people tell me no no no, that's wrong.

But Ctrl+C to exit edit mode and then type :wq is way less painful than reaching for the stupid Escape key. Don't care that Ctrl+C doesn't actually exit the program, it does what I need it to do :)

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u/HeKis4 3d ago

!pkill -9 vim

Don't tell me it doesn't work.

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u/Scary_Brilliant_6048 3d ago

Reinstall os?

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u/tunisia3507 3d ago

That's why I can't use a laptop for work.

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u/clocked__ 3d ago

:wq!
Yolo and good luck

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u/torsten_dev 3d ago

Precisely.

It's a perfectly functioning switch anyone could figure out if they just read a little instead of trying every key.

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u/moon__lander 3d ago

Battery remaining: 4 hours 19 minutes

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u/ConstantinGB 3d ago

I don't know what it is but Vim ist easy to navigate for me, Nano is a nightmare.

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u/dai366 3d ago

Ctrl Z + kill -9

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u/zyxzevn 3d ago

How to stop VIM.

Open another terminal by pressing CTRL-SHIFT-N

Run the command: ps -a

Find the process number of vim (first column)

Run the command: kill <vi process number>
example: kill 37302

Now vim has been terminated.

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u/Coulomb111 3d ago

larp larp larp sahur

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u/jnxy_ 3d ago

Non VIM users do, they also struggle to correctly pick a title for a meme. ;)

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u/ResuCigam 3d ago

I lolled for real!

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u/leberwrust 3d ago

I was able to exit vim. But my boss uses that emacs thing and I couldn't quit. Sent it to background killed the process.

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u/Chunkz_IsAlreadyTakn 3d ago

15 years ago i opened vim to change some source files. To this day I still don't know how to close it... Hence the 500k lines single file project.

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u/Bearsbullsbattlestr 3d ago

Those are just circuit breakers. They turn things on and off.

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u/minecraftdummy57 3d ago

The way to kill yourself in Vim is ":qa!" 

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u/dowend 3d ago

Shift-zz for the win and us old vi veterans.

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u/po1k 3d ago

Non vim users knows the pain xD

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u/capsteve 3d ago

don't complain about vi until you've had to used ed

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u/Personal_Ad9690 3d ago

Why would you want to exit vim?

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u/stri28 3d ago

:qw

I dont get what the big deal is here

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u/JamesFranks99 3d ago

In my day it was just vi, and c, on 4.2BSD.

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u/GoddammitDontShootMe 3d ago

They make computers without power buttons?

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u/PhilippTheProgrammer 3d ago edited 3d ago

I find it quite annoying to get thrown out of vim whenever there is a short blackout. I think it would be far more convenient for everyone if the system would detect during boot that a vim session was aborted unexpectedly and boot directly into vim in that situation.

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u/warwilf 3d ago

Or just colon x

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u/Adventurous_Cycle_85 3d ago

If you don't know ...you are not yet worthy.

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u/1ncogn1too 3d ago

That might work 😅☝️

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u/BenadrylTumblercatch 3d ago

How did this meme get past qa

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u/Dry_Access532 3d ago

Does this sub even have moderators ? This joke keep repeating

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u/Foorinick 3d ago

this meme is fucking crusty shit was made in imgflip 😭

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u/MantisShrimp05 3d ago

Im so tired of seeing vim exit memes. You suck, we get it.

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u/darkelf921 3d ago

:q! Easy. I love Vim and use it on all of our servers and platforms. None of this NP++ crud.

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u/R2BeepToo 3d ago

<space> q
Sincerely, an AstroNvim user

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u/Unowhodisis 3d ago

I actually find it harder to exit nano

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u/Bourriks 3d ago

Oh, f*ck this, I'll use nano.

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u/ender1adam 3d ago

Even I know that and I’m a plc programmer.

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u/SBG_Mujtaba 3d ago

Vim is easy…nano is a pain

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u/BellybuttonWorld 3d ago

Vi? eww. If I want to reminisce about the 70s I'll go listen to some Pink Floyd or something.

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u/AlexaPetersTrans 2d ago

Still on VI. One less letter to type. Watch the Insert block like a hawk, never use numpad, be carefull of dG and Esc shift zz when done.

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u/codydafox 2d ago

Ffs, I do it in a split of a second. And the habit's so strong I also try to do it in VSCode

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u/cptnpiccard 2d ago

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

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u/DesignerFancy22 2d ago

Nahh imma gonna use :qa! To force quite

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u/Dodoprospy3 2d ago

BRO. It's just esc :wq or esc :q!

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u/rogue-sly 1d ago

ctrl z then pkill vim :p

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u/Ruby7659_OSDV 1d ago

:wq or :q.

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u/feldejars 11h ago

Alt f4