Waffelson@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 1 year agoHow did you get out of Vim before you knew its hotkeys and commands?lemmy.world6338522
363How did you get out of Vim before you knew its hotkeys and commands?lemmy.worldWaffelson@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 1 year ago63
Show ContentMagister@lemmy.world8·1 year 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
Show Contentmad_asshatter@lemmy.world7·1 year agoIf it was the 80s, didn’t you have to feed punch cards through the mainframe first? /s
Show ContentMagister@lemmy.world2·1 year agoAlready had huge X Terminal on HP mainframe, using X11R3 and mwm etc. xeyes, xload, xbiff, xterm, it was the time!
Show ContentHaus@kbin.social2·1 year 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!
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Similar. I’d guess it was something like ctrl-z; ps -e vi; kill -9 procnum on a vt100 terminal.