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Very clever... (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

According to Stack Overflow, there is also:

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.