unix(-like) humor

[sine nomine]

Chris just sent me a text message: “Watching a beginner use vi is like _Brokeback Mountain_: ‘I wish I knew how to quit you.’”

deb

[ChaseThisLight]

[Spidey]

/logoff? (or /logout)?

[sine nomine]

the big problem with vi is that you have ot be in command mode to exit. so you start the editor and try to type, but realize you can't type anything becuase you're not in insert mode. so you get frutrated.

if by chance you happen to hit i, you can start typing. of course, you'll never realize how you got into edit mode. and nothing you do will put you back into command mode, because the way you get into command mode is to hit esc, and if you're a beginner you have no way at all to know that. so you end up hitting lot sof different things like

/quit
/q
quit
logoff

exit

/e

and if you know that the quit command is :q, there'll be lots of lines like

:q

:quit

the first time i ever used vi, i stumbled into edit mode but eventually just hung up the connection because i could *not* figure out how to get out of it.

deb