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First Contact With Vim
IDEs Editors Post #4075 · source on Telegram

First Contact With Vim

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A group of people in bright orange hazmat suits stand in a dark scene, with the foreground figure holding a whiteboard. The whiteboard shows the text "ESC :q!", combining the Escape key with the Vim command for quitting without saving. The cinematic, high-stakes visual framing makes a routine editor escape sequence look like a hazardous alien-language protocol. The technical joke depends on the long-running developer meme that exiting Vim is obscure enough to require ritual knowledge.

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Vim is the only editor where the emergency evacuation procedure fits on a hazmat whiteboard.
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    Vim is the only editor where the emergency evacuation procedure fits on a hazmat whiteboard.

  2. dev_meme 4y

    Why without saving

    1. @BotMike 4y

      The whole year was a mistake

      1. dev_meme 4y

        then you should had left 2020 without saving

        1. @Winklnix 4y

          Oh crap, forgot turn off backups))

          1. dev_meme 4y

            oh crap forgot to turn on backups

      2. @MagnusEdvardsson 4y

        spot on 😂😂

    2. @Winklnix 4y

      'cause never moaaar(more) )))

  3. dev_meme 4y

    nano detected

  4. @asuender 4y

    okay then vim?

    1. dev_meme 4y

      vim is better imo

  5. @asuender 4y

    true

  6. @asuender 4y

    even though nano is sufficient in most cases

  7. @saidov 4y

    Wher reaction

  8. @saidov 4y

    Wher poop

  9. @dimiro 4y

    :e!

  10. @dsmagikswsa 4y

    Happy new year guys

  11. @asuender 4y

    Still 27 min left

    1. dev_meme 4y

      Timezone hell

      1. @daniiltimachov 4y

        fuck timezones, be a Babylonian

        1. dev_meme 4y

          what do you mean by that?

          1. @daniiltimachov 4y

            party whole day long

            1. dev_meme 4y

              me: no party at all

              1. @daniiltimachov 4y

                that's great too, have no idea what's the reason of celebrating new year 😂

  12. @asuender 4y

    ye

  13. @UQuark 4y

    micro > nano > vim > emacs

    1. @RiedleroD 4y

      yes

    2. @thematdev 4y

      no, except last inequality

      1. @UQuark 4y

        Admin said yes

    3. @CcxCZ 4y

      http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20220106

  14. @UQuark 4y

    ed >>>>>>>>>>>>>

  15. @feskow 4y

    echo >>

  16. dev_meme 4y

    notepad.exe >>>(inf of them)>>>

    1. @UQuark 4y

      Flipping individual bits with butterflies >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

      1. @feskow 4y

        M-x butterfly >>>>>>>>>>>>>

  17. @injenerpetro 4y

    Get help

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