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

  • itslilith
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    1 year ago

    they accept :q! but I haven’t checked anything else yet

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      1 year ago

      According to Stack Overflow, there is also:

      • :cq (quit without writing and return non-zero exit code)
      • ZQ (quit without writing from normal mode)
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        1 year ago

        I actually knew about ZQ :)

        but in what case would you ever need :cq ? I’m curious what’s the idea behind that

        Edit: I checked, neither work for obsidian verification, including :cq!

        disappointing :c

        • GiantRobotTRex@lemmy.sdf.org
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          It’s useful when vim is being run from a different program or script.

          For example, if I run p4 change to create a new Perforce changelist it will open up my editor (which I have set to vim) so that I can enter the CL description and other fields. If I realize I don’t actually actually want to create the CL yet I can use :cq to quit with an error so that p4 knows to abort.

          I also have a script I use for diffing a list of file pairs. It runs vimdiff on the first pair of files then if I exit with :qa it will move on to the next pair of files. But if I exit with :cq it will just abort and skip all of the remaining file pairs.