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How did you get out of Vim before you knew its hotkeys and commands? (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I guess it was in the 80s, open a new xterm, ps -edaf | grep vi, kill the process, then man vi to read how to exit properly.

This is how I learnt unix, do a ls in /bin /usr/bin /etc, man every command

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Similar. I'd guess it was something like ctrl-z; ps -e vi; kill -9 procnum on a vt100 terminal.

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