No one can exit vim. It’s simply not possible.
There are even legends that the devil himself was onced tricked into opening vim and is stuck there since.
That explains the many vim enthusiasts that don’t want any other editor. They simply can’t exit the vim instance they once accidentally opened…
Stockholm Editor
The Eagles called it Hotel California.
“We are all just prisoners here of our own device”
So true, so true.
You just reboot. Right?
“… and that’s why I need you to take the power plant offline.”
“… and that’s why I need you to take the power plants offline.”
For those who don’t live in the US and have an electical grid with more than one power plant.
Every computer has a built-in “exit vim” button, conveniently located on the chassis, usually next to the power cord. Flick it to 0, then back to 1, and you’ll find vim has been successfully exited. :)
What if my PC boots straight into Vim? It’s not like I need anything else, can do everything in Vim
Jokes aside, vim as PID 1 is just a bad idea.
Emacs on the other hand: https://github.com/emacs-os/el-init
That’s a great idea from GitHub user el-sloppo and Claude.
Did you read the retrospective.md
AI;DR
Then you obviously didn’t read it.
Yes. That’s literally what I said.
This is how we trap it. This is how we win.
This is how we vim😏
How to protect your computer from automated AI attacks 101: start vim
This is the closest I have seen Copilot doing something like a human Programmer would
