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How did you get out of Vim before you knew its hotkeys and commands? (lemmy.world)
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[–] Magister@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (2 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

[–] dogsnest@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

If it was the 80s, didn't you have to feed punch cards through the mainframe first? /s

[–] Magister@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Already had huge X Terminal on HP mainframe, using X11R3 and mwm etc. xeyes, xload, xbiff, xterm, it was the time!

[–] Haus@kbin.social 2 points 3 months ago

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