@nixCraft The first time I opened vim by accident without having used it before, I already knew about ctrl-Z, so I did that fairly quickly and kill -9 %1 -- But I feel sorry for people who did know about ctrl-z yet. :)

@nixCraft@mastodon.social This is Me: "Ew, VIM. Nope." Closes the terminal

@nixCraft I know how to leave vi, but do this with english keyboard settings and a german keyboard. This is much more fun.
Today I started a Gentoo Live-ISO in a VM and opened a file with vi. With this setup ":" is available at "ö" key...
I had to test some keys until I found the correct one.

@nixCraft Back in the days I just restarted my computer. 🤷‍♂️

@nixCraft It doesn't even have to be the first time.

@nixCraft https://github.com/hakluke/how-to-exit-vim A far more comprehensive list of vim exit strategies

@nixCraft do not try to exit vi

@nixCraft There's a solution for that...
(example in debian-based distros)

sudo apt purge vim

nano

😆​

@nixCraft yep this vim joke will never get old even years later 🤣

@nixCraft hhhhh exactly

@nixCraft having messed around with Vim before, I can relate.

@nixCraft That's why I use nano 😬