Well, if the acronym would have been CEV, I could have said Can't Exit Vim; and Don't (know how to) Exit Vim seemed too far fetched, so Don't Exit Vim is the closest to what I wanted to say I could think of.
I'll use something similar when I rebase (to squash) a series of commits in a git repo (vim's my editor for Git). If when presented with the list of commits you do:
:2,$s/pick/s/g
You'll squash all commits into a single commit in one fell swoop.
I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
Do Everything Vetter
Don't Exit Vim
You can’t exit ViM, why ask not to do it?
Well, if the acronym would have been CEV, I could have said Can't Exit Vim; and Don't (know how to) Exit Vim seemed too far fetched, so Don't Exit Vim is the closest to what I wanted to say I could think of.
Vim is the Hotel California of editors.
That's so good, sir :D.
I would say Do Explore Vim! I love Vim :)
GO VIM!!
Don't Exit Vim has got to be my favourite so far.
Pro tip: ESC + :wq = exit vimAnother other pro tip, that's bound to just
ZZ, withough a colon.Another pro tip! There is a shortcut for
:wq—:xAnother pro tip for regex:
I'll use something similar when I rebase (to squash) a series of commits in a git repo (vim's my editor for Git). If when presented with the list of commits you do:
You'll squash all commits into a single commit in one fell swoop.
To be fair, any reference to Vim being hard to quit is always a cheap win.
As a regular vim user, the cheapest win for me is emacs.
agreed
I'll buy that! 😂