The best way I know to quit vi is by turning off your computer

"I can read this Perl scrip"t should translate to “I’m lying”.

> I’m one of those people who think that Perl is a write-only language
-Linus torvalds

I'm absolutely guilty of self-documenting code, but mostly because I'm sick of everyone else's lying comments.

I’ve been seeing a lot of Perl jokes lately and as far as legacy code I haven’t had to edit anything written in that in 25 or so years. For those that haven’t used it, getting form variables and rudimentary things like that were like equivalent to regular expressions, everything had some obscure expression you had to look up or copy paste.

"The reason I use Perl is because I wanna write scripts that no one can read and no one can understand so that I can keep my job"

Hey, now. It is possible to write readable Perl code—it’s just less interesting that way. 😜

IMHO it’s a complex, temporary work around with a few issues.

Also vim > emacs

ESC + :q!

ESC to enter normal mode (if you’re in a different mode like insert) : (colon) to enter commands q to quit ! (or a) to use the quit command withiut keeping any changes