.. title: One does not simply exit vim
.. slug: one-does-not-simply-exit-vim
.. date: 2017-05-26 12:06:37 UTC
.. tags: latex,linux
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A few days ago, stackoverflow has hit a major milestone: `the community has helped one million developers to exit vim. <https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/05/23/stack-overflow-helping-one-million-developers-exit-vim/>`_ If that isn't reason for celebration, nothing is.

'Of course, these aren't real programmers, since those use something else entirely.' 

Surely the `mighty ed? <https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html>`_ 

'`Not even close.' <https://xkcd.com/378/>`_

For those still interested in the grandfather of vi (aka `the most user-hostile editor ever created <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_(text_editor)>`_): here's an excellent little `tutorial. <https://sanctum.geek.nz/arabesque/actually-using-ed/>`_ By the way, you can exit ed by the canonical quit command of Unix applications: q. Much more intuitive than vim! 

I'll write about the editors I'm using (and why) in the near future.