That sounds a lot like the Prince of Persia series.
That sounds a lot like the Prince of Persia series.
No idea whether they’re any good or not, but there are already at least two Tintin games.
The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn, based on the film
and
Tintin Reporter - Cigars of the Pharaoh, based on a book.
Well, that’s easy.
Just wipe it away with toilet paper.
To be fair, your ass can likely heal micro scratches and your toilet seat probably cannot.
While I don’t disagree with anything you said, I think this comment descended into nihilism with alarming rapidity and I hope you’re okay.
When I was but a lad, I learned the phrase “raising skinny elephants is utterly boring.” At my first job where I had a messenger (and thus could set a status message), I set this to display.
I was chastised because the leadership didn’t know what it meant, but thought it might be offensive. I don’t know whom they thought I might offend; one of the many skinny elephants on the team?
I was too nervous to set it again for several subsequent jobs, but eventually I got in a pretty technical one and displayed the message there. Not only did no one express offense, but I actually taught it to someone who put it to use when a mission critical server died.
I genuinely try to add to the conversation whenever I comment and avoid “this” style comments. I don’t necessarily do a great job based on my comment history.
But I have to say … This comment was brilliant.
Holy hell.
No worries about the WoT, I’ve often been there myself.
Thank you for the clarification. As I said, I didn’t see and don’t plan to watch the video, so I didn’t know the details. I don’t know what it would take for Linux to be widely adopted or whether it could be considered “ready” but I wish it would.
Yeah, I didn’t see that video, but I recall reading about it. Apparently the package manager warned him that something would be potentially destructive and he ignored the warning, then blamed Linux for it when it was destructive.
I have nothing clever to say here, so normally I’d let my upvote express my feelings, but that feels inadequate in this case. I just wanted to use my words to let you know that this comment amused me a great deal and to thank you.
I’m not exactly sure what you’re saying here, so I apologize if I’m misinterpreting, but - while I have many potential complaints about Linus - I don’t blame him for his name resembling the word “Linux.”
Because of his name, I thought he was a pro-Linux channel. I was swiftly disappointed.
Would have been more fun, if less accurate, to call them pinecones.
I like the commercial that shows the glasses helping someone cheat at billiards. Or the one that demonstrates how you could use them to covertly record people at a party without their consent or knowledge. Really makes me glad these products exist so that one can easily act unethically with fewer social consequences.
Thank you for being receptive.
As I said, I’m not expert, but I am a fan. If you decide to try it out and are looking for guidance, I (and, separately, probably several communities) would be happy to help as best we’re able.
Apologies in advance for the WOT. I will not be offended if you don’t read it, but I did try to include helpful information.
So, for reference, though this command should work it’s not the correct way to exit vim (for several reasons). Also, if nano works for you, then there’s nothing wrong with using it. IMHO you lose a lot of the power of vim, but some of the beauty of linux is that customization is big part of it. One of the smartest and most linux-knowledgeable people I know uses nano and can outperform me in basically every linuxy way.
Also, a caveat: I know some stuff, but I’m not an expert in anything, let alone neat stuff like this. The text below is accurate to the best of my knowledge, but may not represent the whole of the paradigm.
Now, to answer your question: vim is what’s called modal. You have two primary modes: editing (amusing edit: this is also called “insert” mode) and command. editing mode is what it sounds like: When you’re editing a file. This mode is usually entered by pressing a button that starts the process of changing the file - stuff like i
(for insert mode, which just starts adding text you type where your cursor is) or o
(which starts adding text you type on the next line) or many others. This mode is exited by pressing Esc
, which leaves you in command mode. In command mode, you can start with a :
, which generally goes to a field (not the right word, but the one I’m using) at the bottom of the window/screen. This is the command. The command can be extremely complex and even chained. People who are more into vi(m) than I am call it a sentence, I believe, but I might be misinterpreting that. (You can also type things without a :
but those will have different kind of impact.)
So, to run the command I posted above, you would start by pressing Esc
to make sure you were in command mode (if you already are it will just maintain command mode). Then you would type :
to start the command (or possibly sentence). Then you would type the !
, which tells vim that this command is to be run in the shell, rather than as a vim command. Then you would type pkill vim
which is a command that would tell the shell to identify a process called vim
and kill it. This would exit vim but is, again, not the correct way to do so.
The usual way to exit vim correctly would be to press Esc to make sure you were in command mode, then type one of the following:
:wq
(write and quit):q
(quit without saving the file)!
after it (e.g. :wq!
or :q!
) which tells it to ignore errors (:q
will complain if you have made any unsaved changed but adding !
will ignore those complaints)ZZ
(I’ve not used this myself, but I think it’s equivalent to :wq
)One last aside: If you do decide to try to use vim, this is a useful resource: https://vimschool.netlify.app/introduction/vimtutor/
edit: Very small formatting changes.
edit 2: Just some random facts because vim is cool:
:!
with no other text to see the terminal from which you launched vim, then press enter to return to your active vim session, which can be useful if you’re trying to replicate text in an environment where you can’t copy and paste (and probably other circumstances)
before any command applies it to the whole file (rather than, for example, just one line) which can be useful if you’re trying to sort a file (and in other circumstances):%!sort
(without the it would just try to sort the current line, which likely wouldn’t be too useful since I believe it only goes by the first character of the line unless you present other arguments)
I can’t comment on the comparison, as I didn’t play most of those, but I will comment on Sands of Time:
The premise of the game is that the protagonist is recalling a story. He narrates your actions as you play, but you can fail. If you fail, you can die. If you die, the narrator says things like “and then I died. No, wait, that’s not right” and you can rewind time.
I always thought that was pretty funny.