ways to close vim

Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de to Programmer Humor@programming.dev – 206 points –
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  • Unplug the computer
  • Shut the house electric safety switch down
  • Cut the electricity pole nearest to the house
  • Bomb the nearest electricity distribution post

nuke it from orbit. it's the only way to be sure.

  • Wait for a sufficiently powerful coronal mass ejection to collapse the global electric grid

"Simple and easily explained."

Pretty sure I can learn my grandma to put a fork in any socket to close Vim, no prior knowledge needed

Does colon-capital-Q-exclamation mark even work? I'm pretty sure it's only lower case q.

its supposed to be lowercase,
but imgflip put the entire text in uppercase.

Honestly, the joke landed anyway. I've done numerous uppercase-Q trying to quit, because I didn't let go of Shift fast enough after typing the colon...

cat /dev/zero > "/proc/$(pidof vim)/mem" is my favorite dumb way. Clear its memory, wait for the segfault.

...you can write to program memory? Idk how exactly but that feels like a security risk.

dumb way.

Get fancy, add progress bar: pv < /dev/zero > "/proc/$(pidof vim)/mem"

ctrl-S instinctively from windows then panic when the terminal pauses and isnt accepting input so you restart the computer.

ZZ will save file though, the others won't. You meant ZQ.

til shift-z shift-z. am I stupid

try...

:x

it will save your changes and exit vim If there are no changes to the then it just exits vim.