- 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…
Was going to say this, myself.
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”
Amateur. Just unplug the power cable.
Open vim.
Accept vim is the OS now.
There’s a whole repo of possible methods: https://github.com/hakluke/how-to-exit-vim
ctrl-S instinctively from windows then panic when the terminal pauses and isnt accepting input so you restart the computer.
Fuck, are you me?
ZZ will save file though, the others won’t. You meant ZQ.
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- Ctrl + T + alt
- sudo reboot
⏻
try…
:x
it will save your changes and exit vim If there are no changes to the then it just exits vim.