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submitted 11 months ago by Jorgelino@lemmy.ml to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

I'm trying out Obsidian for taking notes, and this made me laugh.

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[-] Vash63@lemmy.world 32 points 11 months ago

There's a few different ways to write that command in vim, does it accept all of them?

[-] Jorgelino@lemmy.ml 17 points 11 months ago

I'm honestly not super familiar with vim. I tried :q! and it accepted it, what are some other ways?

[-] OpenStars@kbin.social 8 points 11 months ago

:wq will save and then exit, while :x will save only if the file has been modified and then exit, and then there's ZZ that does the same as :x, plus there are probably others:-)

[-] ray@kbin.social 17 points 11 months ago

The question specifically asked for "the command to quit Vim without saving"

[-] uzay@infosec.pub 8 points 11 months ago

They explicitly ask for the one that quits without saving, so I'd say :q! is the obvious choice

[-] GiantRobotTRex@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 11 months ago

I agree that it's the most obvious choice, but it also doesn't work when there are hidden buffers open. :qa! and :cq should always work so they are arguably more correct

[-] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 6 points 11 months ago

Which means none of those are valid? Since this is specifically "quit without saving"

[-] oconnordaniel@infosec.pub 3 points 11 months ago
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