ASCII Clippy: It Looks Like You Are Trying to Exit Vim

Description

A terminal screenshot styled as a vim session on a black background with white monospace text. An ASCII-art rendition of Clippy, the Microsoft Office paperclip assistant, appears at the top with a speech bubble saying 'It looks like you are trying to exit vim.' Below, the text 'wq' has been typed into the buffer with the cursor after it, tilde (~) characters mark empty lines down the left side, and the status line at the bottom reads '-- INSERT --'. The joke layers two classics: the infamous difficulty of exiting vim, and the user typing the save-and-quit command ':wq' while stuck in insert mode, so it just becomes literal text in the file

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Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick Twenty years of experience and the file still ships to prod with 'wq' on line one - the true vim exit strategy is git commit

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Twenty years of experience and the file still ships to prod with 'wq' on line one - the true vim exit strategy is git commit
Anonymous

Clippy identified the task perfectly and still forgot to press Esc—the original coding agent.
@Aqualon 4mo

he just wants to help
@nikpushkarski 4mo

feels like a scene from a text-based horror game 🤣
1. dev_meme 4mo
  
  He just wants to play!
  
  @nikpushkarski 4mo
  
  Aha, just that, sounds harmless, right
@death_by_oom 4mo

Damn he's creepy ":!kill $PPID" this thing
@rtyusxz 4mo

creepy af
Deleted Account 4mo

Clippy? In Vim?🫤