• Sentinian@lemmy.one
    1·
    3 years ago

    Memes like this always make we wonder the original version of it. I am dying to know the original context of why the father doesn’t want the boyfriend to pull out

    • CarrotsHaveEars@lemmy.ml
      1·
      3 years ago

      The father didn’t believe the boy’s claim and dared him to demonstrate exiting Vim without pulling out the power cable that night.

    • nautilus@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 years ago

      casual nano fan here. can’t stand vim, if my text editor has its own command line then there’s a problem lol

      at least we can all come together and say that emacs is the worst

    • skrttskrtt911@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 years ago

      I’ve been trying to get good at vim recently and the more I learn how to do, the more I love it. I already hit the inflection point of being better with vim then regular text editors, but I can tell I’m nowhere near as fast as I can be

    • tal@kbin.social
      0·
      3 years ago

      I’m on the emacs side of things, but knowing at least the bare minimum of vim is handy, because I have run into into systems (usually very small systems like routers or something) where some vi variant is available and nothing else is. Though as systems get bigger, it has become more the norm to have at least nano also available.

      I’d know at least this:

      • i to enter insert mode. Then you can edit as in a non-modal editor.

      • Esc to exit insert mode and go back to normal mode.

      • h, j, k, l move left, down, up, and right. The fingers under your right hand on a QWERTY keyboard.

      • / to start a regex search

      • % and then SRC/REPLACEMENT to do a regex replacement.

      • :q to exit without saving changes.

      • :wq to save and exit.

      That’s enough to perform a couple of small edits or something if need be.

      • russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net
        1·
        3 years ago

        Also another important one is :q! if you want to quit without saving changes, though vim will remind you if you leave off the ! in case you forget.