The Unspoken Superiority of a Vim User

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This meme features the 'GigaChad' character, a black-and-white photograph of an extremely muscular and chiseled man, typically used to represent an ideal or superior viewpoint. The image has large, white impact-font text overlaid on the top and bottom. The top text reads: 'TELL ME YOU USE VIM'. The bottom text reads: 'WITHOUT TELLING ME YOU USE VIM'. This meme leverages the popular 'tell me without telling me' social media trend to poke fun at the distinct culture and habits of developers who use the Vim text editor. Vim is a powerful, terminal-based editor known for its steep learning curve and reliance on keyboard commands for navigation and editing (e.g., 'hjkl' keys for movement, ':wq' to save and quit). Users often develop such strong muscle memory that they instinctively try to use these commands in other programs, which is one of the classic 'tells' the meme alludes to. The use of the GigaChad format ironically reinforces the stereotype that Vim users view their choice of editor as superior to others

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick I tried to edit a Google Doc and instinctively hit 'esc', 'dd', 'p' to cut and paste a line. Now I have to explain to my PM why the project plan just says 'pp'

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

I tried to edit a Google Doc and instinctively hit 'esc', 'dd', 'p' to cut and paste a line. Now I have to explain to my PM why the project plan just says 'pp'
Anonymous

Yesterday’s post-mortem found the root cause of the prod outage: a stray “:wq” accidentally committed to a Kubernetes manifest - turns out Vim muscle memory can schedule its own containers
Anonymous

After 15 years in the industry, I've learned that the only thing harder than exiting Vim is getting a Vim user to stop explaining why their .vimrc is a work of art that makes them 10x more productive than us mere mortals using IDEs with their 'training wheels'
Anonymous

The first rule of Vim Club is you absolutely must tell everyone about Vim Club - preferably within the first 30 seconds of any technical conversation, right after mentioning you use Arch Linux but before explaining why your dotfiles are superior
Anonymous

Proof you use Vim: EDITOR=vim turns every company rebase into a helpdesk ticket, and the postmortem title ends with ':wq'
Anonymous

You know they use Vim when they navigate Jira with hjkl, try to quit Zoom with :q!, and justify it as “consistent modal UX” in the architecture review
Anonymous

:wq is your mic drop; everyone else fumbles with Ctrl+S
@skylightxo 4y

How do I quit this?..
1. @kitbot256 4y
  
  this is the question I google every time when I accidentally run emacs. One colleague of mine always sets EDITOR=emacs, and once in a while (maybe once a month) I press ^x^e and land in there.
@andronkolaider 4y

I have crippling depression
@hlvlad 4y

ZZ
@LastStranger 4y

:q!
1. @repixel 4y
  
  👍👍
2. Deleted Account 4y
  
  :wq
@alhimik45 4y

I use Reset button to quit editor
@chekoopa 4y

:%s/Linux/GNU\/Linux/g
@waifu_anton 4y

I don't
1. @sylfn 4y
  
  start now
  
  @waifu_anton 4y
  
  I'd prefer nano. It suits for all of my minor tasks at work
  
  @sylfn 4y
  
  hotkeys are really bad (compared to vim and notepad.exe)
  
  @waifu_anton 4y
  
  Maybe, but I don't complain. For small edits just fine
  
  @thecheloveg 4y
  
  I used nano for a while, until i found micro, i think you should try it out
  
  @waifu_anton 4y
  
  Maybe at some day I'll try it. Thanks for the advice!
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  wanted to try it for ages, but I haven't found time so far
Ievgen 4y

"I don't need GUI to freely edit and navigate complex code files"
1. @sylfn 4y
  
  gnu ed users:
  
  Ievgen 4y
  
  ok, countered
2. @declonter 4y
  
  emacs. huh? ;)
@k_scranton 4y

<C-v>jjjjjjjjjlg<C-a>
@k_scranton 4y

also, x on my keyboard has been broken for a year now, so i know by heart that X is <C-v>88 and x is <C-v>120 😅😅😅😅
@TarasPushkar24 4y

Русский детектед
1. @sylfn 4y
  
  russian detected please use english in this chat
2. @sylfn 4y
  
  this rule does apply for sent stickers, but does not for other sitckers in packs (which are not sent)
@artur_odesa 4y

I used to edit code on production server using my smartphone with physical qwerty keyboard....
1. @sylfn 4y
  
  "used to edit" means that in past you edited but now you don't more correct will be "I edited code ... with smartphone ..." or "I used smartphone ... to edit code ..."
  
  @artur_odesa 4y
  
  Yes, in past it was pretty normal for me to do that and now it is not.
  
  @sylfn 4y
  
  you should have told that you use vim, not used in past
2. @cringle_flex 4y
  
  Cursed
  
  @feskow 4y
  
  It's not that bad if you're using ssh and text editors
  
  @cringle_flex 4y
  
  The problem is not really in setup, but in all cursed chaos that led to editing code directly on production server through this setup, this process seems so wrong and broken to me
  
  @feskow 4y
  
  Huh... I... oh
@somethingsomethingusername 4y

ee > vim
@artur_odesa 4y

:/
@artur_odesa 4y

Today I work in outlook mostly :D
@failingtwice 4y

Nice COC bro
@Alimohamad_amel 4y

guys i wanna install ubutu alongside windows 10 but rsd problem doesn't allow me do you have any suggestions?
1. @pixelsex 4y
  
  there's windows version of Vim mate, welcome
  
  @sylfn 4y
  
  you can also use wsl/wsl2 or cygwin
@Alimohamad_amel 4y

yes i know but i wanted to dual boot 😅
1. @sylfn 4y
  
  use VMs
2. @pixelsex 4y
  
  installl windows first, slap ubuntu with EFI GRUB after, it should figure out the boot partitions itself
@L2CacheGay 4y

"I've never felt the touch of a woman"
Deleted Account 4y

!wqa
Deleted Account 4y

Yanked this meme, thx
@sashakity 4y

impossible. vim users tell everyone they use vim constantly
@cgrbyk 4y

how to generate random string in vim?? open vim for a frontend developer and tell him to exit.
1. @feskow 4y
  
  lmao
2. @affirvega 4y
  
  cat /dev/urandom | tr -d "[:cntrl:]" | strings -s ""
@MrZarei 4y

Oh yeah FUCK
@callofvoid0 4y

:w :q
@pixelsex 4y

ZZ does the same apparently, pity :w:q is inprinted in the brain already
1. @sylfn 4y
  
  now try to exit "easy mode" of vim (vim -y)
  
  @qtsmolcat 4y
  
  Oh dear lord
@SamsonovAnton 4y

I am not afraid to admit I prefer mcedit (Midnight Commander) in *nix and FAR Editor in Windows. See no reason to suffer with vi and alike, except on embedded devices with limited hardware resources.
1. @sylfn 4y
  
  no reason to suffer with vi and alike you should enjoy vim, and you'll have a different opinion
  
  @SamsonovAnton 4y
  
  We have too few time in this life to spend it on learning vim.
  
  @sylfn 4y
  
  you can actually make your next life easier with learning how to use vim now and if you're lucky enough, your current one too
@asm3r 4y

d%
@elijahpo 4y

hjkl yy p
@blacktrub 4y

We have a plugin for this.
@QutePoet 4y

I use vi Does not conflict with the condition.
Сифуд Кстолу 4y

Извините, но Вы - меркантильное :q!
@affirvega 4y

Sounds about right
Сифуд Кстолу 4y

Glory to Lannisters! :)
@affirvega 4y

It should be mercantile, something to do with trading, greed
@SHPR8 4y

ggdG:wq f*** this sh** I'm out
@s2504s 4y

А как какать выйти?
1. @sylfn 4y
  
  tell me you are russian without telling me you are russian скажи мне, что ты русский, не говоря, что ты русский Please use English as a main language in this chat. This means that you either translate or explain your message, or you don't use any language except English.
@sylfn 4y

what if link in qr code dies?
@sylfn 4y

and then your qr code is considered fake
@sylfn 4y

they won't if they don't want to
@dugeru42 4y

people won't automated systems will mostly break
1. @freeapp2014 4y
  
  well in most cases the check is performed by a elderly person working as security or something like that
@sidewayscoitus 4y

<Esc> :wqa
@novaksm 4y

iVim<Esc>:wq

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The Unspoken Superiority of a Vim User

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