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I'm trying out Obsidian for taking notes, and this made me laugh.

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[–] Gentoo1337@sh.itjust.works 123 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Why would I want to exit vim?

[–] DWin@sh.itjust.works 33 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I tmux my vim session so I never have to exit it, I just end the session and NOTHING OF NOTE HAPPENS

[–] sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Just all those left over swap files I forget about because they are in every one of my dot ignore files.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 years ago

Aka "vim turds"

[–] samson@aussie.zone 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] sgh@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] samson@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago

But importantly the swp files in my home directory are gone, along with all my rc files but who needs them

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 3 points 2 years ago
set swapfile
set dir=~/.cache

No, i just googled it.

[–] spacesweedkid27@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] uis@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

What if SIGTERM not enough? Kill nine times. Like this: killall -9 vim. Congratulations, comrade, you have passed KGB exam.

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hmm never thought of it like that. Unix programs are actually cats, and sometimes you have to kill all nine of their lives to really end them.

[–] uis@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Yes, one of them literally have name cat, so you can kill all the cats with killall -9 cat

[–] DWin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

You monster, I prefer denial

[–] lemme_at_it@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

It is much easier not to