On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 12:03:20PM -0800, Bryan Murdock wrote: > On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 11:50, Ross Werner wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Bryan Murdock wrote: > > > > > > The only vim command you ever need to learn - :q > > > > > > Actually to be safe you better tell people to use -> ESC :q! <- a simple > > > sequence that requires pressing only six keys and works in whatever mode > > > you've gotten yourself into. > > > > Not quite ... there are a few places in vim that even this won't work. > > Try /^V for example. [Bonus points for finding others.] > > > > Besides, I think his point was that he won't ever be in vim long enough to > > have to use either the ESC or the !. > > I don't know, the usual mistake I've seen is you open vi and just start > typing text. This usually takes you to some weird mode.
That Ctrl-X, Ctrl-S/C problem annoys me like nobody's business. My
personal disgust with that horrific text editor grows exponentially as
a function of how many times I get stuck in that mode.
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