quitting in the terminal

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Julia Evans

Like 28 October at 19:09 | Open on social.jvns.ca

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KMohZaid

@b0rk hey there, can you help people who are unable to exit vim after ages? 🙂

28 October at 19:11 | Open on mstdn.social

Julia Evans

@KMohZaid what do you mean? I can never tell if "I can't quit vim" is a joke or serious, like I kind of assume that if people are confused about how to quit vim they can google it and see that you can do something like “ESC :qa!" to get out.

but maybe that’s wrong? my brain might be distorted from using vim for too long :)

28 October at 19:13 | Open on social.jvns.ca

KMohZaid

@b0rk i was talking about meme 😅

28 October at 19:14 | Open on mstdn.social

KMohZaid

@b0rk btw i learnt recently that there is another way

Shift+Z Shift+Z - save and exit
Shift+Z Shift+Q - exit without save

28 October at 19:15 | Open on mstdn.social

Lulu · לולו

@KMohZaid @b0rk

ZQ - exit without saving
ZZ - save and exit

28 October at 19:15 | Open on hachyderm.io

Erwan 🚄

@b0rk I know situations where typing Ctrl-D will give you the answer "please type exit to end the session"

28 October at 19:13 | Open on mastodon.gougere.fr

Colin McMillen

@b0rk Stubborn programs get a

Ctrl-Z
bg
kill -9 %1

28 October at 19:18 | Open on piaille.fr

No Gate Key

@colin_mcmillen @b0rk absolutely this. I run into this on macOS + zsh all. The. Time. I’ve not dug into why, but I even have a ctrlc_reset=‘trap true INT && trap INT’ (pure cargo cult code from stackexchange) to get ^C working again. Long since lost track of the number of times I’ve needed to ^Z + bg to get out of a program, tho.