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Only (potentially) funny if you've ever used vi

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pdenisowski:
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



DimitriP:

--- Quote ---found ":w" throughout my document.
--- End quote ---
:-DD

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

shapirus:
E492: Not an editor command: Wq

pdenisowski:

--- Quote from: DimitriP on March 27, 2023, 09:10:59 am ---
--- Quote ---found ":w" throughout my document.
--- End quote ---
:-DD

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

--- End quote ---

 :-DD :-DD :-DD

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

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