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If you use nvim you don't exit you open a float terminal. Why would you exit?
It has achieved the same level of awareness as the average emacs user.
Just like me fr
This is the closest I have seen Copilot doing something like a human Programmer would
Ok this proves that AI has reaches human level intelligence.
I often see Copilot get stuck in a nonresponsive shell after it used cat > file. It's hilarious to watch the first time, but I'm a bit tired of it by now. Why doesn't it just edit files like it normally does?
Why doesn't it just edit files like it normally does?
Haha. Yes.
But it does everything the most probable way, according to all the stack overflow it has swallowed.
Sometimes that way makes sense. Sometimes not.
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First funny thing ive seen Microslop Copilot do...
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
Oh it's like Zombo?
Not anymore.
Jokes aside, vim as PID 1 is just a bad idea.
Emacs on the other hand: https://github.com/emacs-os/el-init
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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
Vimmer here, this one's right: I've been stuck since 2003.
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I was a programmer for the Commodore PET, let me see what I can do.
10 Exit VIM
20 end
did it work?
Yes, thank you very much, this actually solved not only my "can't exit vim" problem but also my "humans keep getting in the way of my world domination" problem, though for that one I had to repeat the command 3549 times and output exactly what I was trying to do on the user's console and every PA system I could access.
Blowing through all those tokens failing to exit a vim
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