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    [–] PlexSheep@feddit.de 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (7 children)

    I really don't get the exit vim meme anymore. It's just two key presses, trivial. When you hit <C-c> it tells you exactly what to do. Anyone stuck in vom either does not read or has no idea how to use a terminal.

    Edit: I'm German, I meant vim.

    [–] hollunder@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah vom is easy. Have you tried exiting vim tho?

    [–] Dicska@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

    Whenever I have to edit a text file when nauseous, I just vom it.

    [–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

    I mean how hard could it be, you just press some random letters until it exits

    [–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 11 points 7 months ago

    Vim is unintuitive. If you are a new linux CLI user and follow some tutorials that tells you to run vim, modify something then save and exit, it can be daunting.

    [–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    ^^ The kind of person who doesn't remember what it's like being new at the CLI.

    or…

    Linux is so easy, n00b. You're just stupid.

    [–] PlexSheep@feddit.de 1 points 7 months ago

    I hope the first one. But the effect is real, stuff you know already was easy and stuff you don't is hard. I'm feeling it with my migration to proxmox, it's hard.

    [–] Dasnap@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

    :x simple as. Vim was the first terminal text editor I used so I'm biased.

    [–] Windex007@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

    ESC : q ENTER (assuming you haven't modified the buffer)?

    What's the two key press exit pattern?

    [–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 points 7 months ago

    vom stand for "Vi, only maybe".