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Title: Only (potentially) funny if you've ever used vi
Post by: pdenisowski on March 27, 2023, 08:32:15 am

I used Unix almost exclusively throughout grad school and at my first 3 R&D jobs, and my editor of choice was vi.

Spent a good amount of time this weekend working with a Raspberry Pi and decided to relive the good old days by doing everything with vi.  Ah, the joys of mouse-less text editing  :)

Back working in Windows / Office this morning, went to spell check, and found ":w" throughout my document.   |O

Title: Re: Only (potentially) funny if you've ever used vi
Post by: DimitriP on March 27, 2023, 09:10:59 am

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found ":w" throughout my document.

:-DD

So immediattely you didn't type :s/\:w//g  did 'ya ?  :)
   

Title: Re: Only (potentially) funny if you've ever used vi
Post by: shapirus on March 27, 2023, 09:13:48 am

E492: Not an editor command: Wq

Title: Re: Only (potentially) funny if you've ever used vi
Post by: pdenisowski on March 27, 2023, 09:15:59 am

Quote from: DimitriP on March 27, 2023, 09:10:59 am

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found ":w" throughout my document.

:-DD

So immediattely you didn't type :s/\:w//g  did 'ya ?  :)
   

 :-DD :-DD :-DD

Title: Re: Only (potentially) funny if you've ever used vi
Post by: Infraviolet on March 27, 2023, 09:38:39 pm

Having a case of this almost?
https://xkcd.com/477/