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Copilot can't exit vim (lemmy.ml)
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[–] eli@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Nah, just looked it up. Recording mode is activated by pressing "q" and allows you to record your inputs for a macro. So if you forget to do ":" and just press "q" you'll enter Recording mode and have to press "q" again to exit Recording and then you can do ":q" or whatever you needed.

But if you don't know what you pressed and don't know how to exit Recording mode then you'll be stuck. I've seen coworkers get stuck in this from time to time.

We're a RHEL shop so our vim version may be different, but Recording mode doesn't let us exit vim directly, we have to exit Recording mode and then exit vim. Again, might just be our setup.