Gnome?

It’s Camelcamelcamel okay?

My current employer was founded on the basis of the first two statements. They said they would never hire anyone who didn’t have a background in tech. Even the HR manager lady who processed my onboarding had a history of coding and I’ve never before seen an individual who had been in both industries.

Unfortunately, since I started, my company was bought by a bigger company who was then themselves bought by a bigger company. Though my employer still has one of the best workforces I’ve ever seen, it seems we no longer hold the “tech background only” policy.

This post exemplifies an interesting combination of optimism and pessimism.

We’re friends?

He does, and the commenters had many varied opinions about it: https://youtu.be/crjxpZHv7Hk

Veritasium also has a video on standards: https://youtu.be/esQyYGezS7c

Tom Scott also has a video about it, but a quick search returns several possible results and (despite his probably being the best) I don’t remember enough about it to determine which is the correct one nor enough time to watch and determine.

Thank you for the information.

… X-Men?

Thank you for being receptive.

As I said, I’m not expert, but I am a fan. If you decide to try it out and are looking for guidance, I (and, separately, probably several communities) would be happy to help as best we’re able.

Ah, my mistake.

Apologies in advance for the WOT. I will not be offended if you don’t read it, but I did try to include helpful information.

So, for reference, though this command should work it’s not the correct way to exit vim (for several reasons). Also, if nano works for you, then there’s nothing wrong with using it. IMHO you lose a lot of the power of vim, but some of the beauty of linux is that customization is big part of it. One of the smartest and most linux-knowledgeable people I know uses nano and can outperform me in basically every linuxy way.

Also, a caveat: I know some stuff, but I’m not an expert in anything, let alone neat stuff like this. The text below is accurate to the best of my knowledge, but may not represent the whole of the paradigm.

Now, to answer your question: vim is what’s called modal. You have two primary modes: editing (amusing edit: this is also called “insert” mode) and command. Editing mode is what it sounds like: When you’re editing a file. This mode is usually entered by pressing a button that starts the process of changing the file - stuff like i (for insert mode, which just starts adding text you type where your cursor is) or o (which starts adding text you type on the next line) or many others. This mode is exited by pressing Esc, which leaves you in command mode. In command mode, you can start with a :, which generally goes to a field (not the right word, but the one I’m using) at the bottom of the window/screen. This is the command. The command can be extremely complex and even chained. People who are more into vi(m) than I am call it a sentence, I believe, but I might be misinterpreting that. (You can also type things without a : but those will have different kind of impact.)

So, to run the command I posted above, you would start by pressing Esc to make sure you were in command mode (if you already are it will just maintain command mode). Then you would type : to start the command (or possibly sentence). Then you would type the !, which tells vim that this command is to be run in the shell, rather than as a vim command. Then you would type pkill vim which is a command that would tell the shell to identify a process called vim and kill it. This would exit vim but is, again, not the correct way to do so.

The usual way to exit vim correctly would be to press Esc to make sure you were in command mode, then type one of the following:

• :wq (write and quit)
• :q (quit without saving the file)
• either of the above with a ! after it (e.g. :wq! or :q!) which tells it to ignore errors (:q will complain if you have made any unsaved changed but adding ! will ignore those complaints)
• press ZZ (I’ve not used this myself, but I think it’s equivalent to :wq)

One last aside: If you do decide to try to use vim, this is a useful resource: https://vimschool.netlify.app/introduction/vimtutor/

edit: Very small formatting changes.

edit 2: Just some random facts because vim is cool:

• You can type :! with no other text to see the terminal from which you launched vim, then press enter to return to your active vim session, which can be useful if you’re trying to replicate text in an environment where you can’t copy and paste (and probably other circumstances)
• Adding % before any command applies it to the whole file (rather than, for example, just one line) which can be useful if you’re trying to sort a file (and in other circumstances):

%!sort

(without the % it would just try to sort the current line, which likely wouldn’t be too useful since I believe it only goes by the first character of the line unless you present other arguments)

!pkill vim

First time I heard it as a joke was from George Carlin discussing how wars are inherently phallocentric.

I’ve always loved the snow. I will admit that since it hurt me, I’ve preferred to enjoy it through a window or from a sheltered place rather than to be in it.

I moved several hundred miles across multiple states in part to be where there’s sometimes snow. Shortly after I got here, I was chatting to a local and mentioned that fact; he responded something like “wow. Most people don’t move to here for the weather.”

edit: I have a bad habit of writing run-on sentences. Tried to fix one here.

I’ve started watching a YouTube channel of a guy trying to handbuild a homestead in Alaska. I forget where he said he came from, but like you, it was somewhere without snow.

On a recent video, he recorded himself seeing what I think he said was the third snowfall he’d ever seen and the first with accumulation. It was nice to watch his clearly genuine joy and surprise.

Maybe he underwent the reverse of the procedure Colonel Graves had in Die Another Day.

That channel has some videos that are both enjoyable and not about Segal. I enjoyed the one on Blade: Trinity.

Your confidence is enviable.

I believe this theory was also posited by a frequently referenced Reddit user.

edit: And based on their experience, probably should not be heeded.

Anything is if you’re brave enough.