Waffelson@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 3 months agoHow did you get out of Vim before you knew its hotkeys and commands?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square57fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageHow did you get out of Vim before you knew its hotkeys and commands?lemmy.worldWaffelson@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 3 months agomessage-square57fedilink
minus-squareMagister@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoI 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
minus-squaremad_asshatter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-23 months agoIf it was the 80s, didn’t you have to feed punch cards through the mainframe first? /s
minus-squareMagister@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoAlready had huge X Terminal on HP mainframe, using X11R3 and mwm etc. xeyes, xload, xbiff, xterm, it was the time!
minus-squareHaus@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoSimilar. I’d guess it was something like ctrl-z; ps -e vi; kill -9 procnum on a vt100 terminal.
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
If it was the 80s, didn’t you have to feed punch cards through the mainframe first? /s
Already had huge X Terminal on HP mainframe, using X11R3 and mwm etc. xeyes, xload, xbiff, xterm, it was the time!
Similar. I’d guess it was something like ctrl-z; ps -e vi; kill -9 procnum on a vt100 terminal.