This is how we trap it. This is how we win.
This is how we vim😏
No one can exit vim. It’s simply not possible.
There are even legends that the devil himself was onced tricked into opening vim and is stuck there since.
That explains the many vim enthusiasts that don’t want any other editor. They simply can’t exit the vim instance they once accidentally opened…
Stockholm Editor
The Eagles called it Hotel California.
“We are all just prisoners here of our own device”
So true, so true.
I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t exit vim.
Every computer has a built-in “exit vim” button, conveniently located on the chassis, usually next to the power cord. Flick it to 0, then back to 1, and you’ll find vim has been successfully exited. :)
What if my PC boots straight into Vim? It’s not like I need anything else, can do everything in Vim
Jokes aside, vim as PID 1 is just a bad idea.
Emacs on the other hand: https://github.com/emacs-os/el-init
That’s a great idea from GitHub user el-sloppo and Claude.
Did you read the retrospective.md
AI;DR
Then you obviously didn’t read it.
Yes. That’s literally what I said.
Well, it has to earn its stripes just like the rest of us in IT! No shortcuts, even for an LLM. :D
When I first got into BSD (way before Linux) I found man pages useful… but no way to leave them. Not even
man manwon’t tell you how to exit a man page!So I would tinker, eventually needing a man page, reading what I needed – and then hard power cycle the machine. -_-
I was pretty good with computers, but that was a humbling experience. You just don’t know what you don’t know, and if you can’t ask… sometimes you just get stuck. Just like in KQ, LSL, SQ, … The Internet is (was) a blessing.
