Waffelson@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 7 months agoHow did you get out of Vim before you knew its hotkeys and commands?message-squaremessage-square63fedilinkarrow-up1383arrow-down122
arrow-up1361arrow-down1message-squareHow did you get out of Vim before you knew its hotkeys and commands?Waffelson@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 7 months agomessage-square63fedilink
minus-squareMagister@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·7 months agoI 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
minus-squaremad_asshatter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·edit-27 months agoIf it was the 80s, didn’t you have to feed punch cards through the mainframe first? /s
minus-squareMagister@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 months agoAlready had huge X Terminal on HP mainframe, using X11R3 and mwm etc. xeyes, xload, xbiff, xterm, it was the time!
minus-squareHaus@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 months agoSimilar. I’d guess it was something like ctrl-z; ps -e vi; kill -9 procnum on a vt100 terminal.
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!
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Similar. I’d guess it was something like ctrl-z; ps -e vi; kill -9 procnum on a vt100 terminal.