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Itβs easy.
Escape to exit edit mode : to prefix a command
q to quit
! to confirm
Now emacs⦠those people are crazy.
! = Force
Meaning quit without saving. If no changes have been made, you can :q and that will work. If you've fumbled and made any change to the file, you'll need the ! to get it to quit without saving.
with Emacs you're never out of Control
WQ = Write and Quit Q! = quit and do nothing else
Multiline cut, copy, paste is where I forget commands.
I just use visual edit mode. Or 5yy for copy 5 lines. Paste is easy - p.
I'm shit at navigating and anything with the "g" command. I never bothered learning that.
Asking someone to quit emacs when they never tried before is a great method to generate random strings for a secure password.
I've always preferred vi commands, they make sense and are mostly abbreviations or regex, all the other editors have the strangest commands...
To write and quit in vi :wq
To write and quit in nano: ctrl-o, confirmation dialog about tmp files, ctrl-x, confirmation dialog about exiting... weird feeling that I didn't actually save the file... reopen, okay it saved, ctrl-x, confirmation dialog, weird feeling that I accidently edited the file...
I used nano for years until I forced myself to learn the basics of vi(m), now whenever something opens nano by default it annoys me and I immediately change the editor to vim π
Yeah, like Word, you open it, don't change anything, close, "Do you want to save changes?"... WTF π€¨.
I used emacs when I first started programming because it was what my dad showed me and I always thought it was easier than vim. Then I used a bunch of other things for a while and mostly use vim now and whenever I try to use emacs I am so confused because it makes so much less sense than vim after actually using both
You could always use emacs with evil-mode to have vim key bindings
Evil mode, I like that π€£π€£π€£.
For me vi was my first experience with it.
So yeah, I think itβs often about what youβre used to