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How did you get out of Vim before you knew its hotkeys and commands?

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  • 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.

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