Lol! I thought vi was genuinely a new layer of the OS, like an embedded console. Ended up creating 10 files containing exit, or quit, or ^c, until I hit the escape key and the cursor changed…then I rebooted from frustration and actually read the man page. The controls are all from this dumb terminal keyboard that had useful decals on them. That’s where navigation with kjhl came from and :q to quit.
Lol! I thought vi was genuinely a new layer of the OS, like an embedded console. Ended up creating 10 files containing exit, or quit, or ^c, until I hit the escape key and the cursor changed…then I rebooted from frustration and actually read the man page. The controls are all from this dumb terminal keyboard that had useful decals on them. That’s where navigation with kjhl came from and :q to quit.
https://pikuma.com/blog/origins-of-vim-text-editor
Rage quitting vi/vim really is a right of passage.
Remember ed?
Do you remember…
When someone first showed you tab completion?
Like absolute fucking wizardry man, like a Jedi Master appeared in front of you with the knowledge of the ancients.
Before that instant in your life you were typing out full pathnames, like some fucking schmuck.
And from then on, everything changed, forever.
Absolutely. Bash was such a game changer with history too, and ctrl+r
You mean I can search recent history and get a recently used command?!?!?!?!?!