When I was absolutely new to computers I was given a similar instruction. Unfortunately, I didn’t notice whatever the key was actually being its own key, let’s say Ctrl, so I began to press down C+T+R+L.
Joke’s on them: those aliens don’t perceive time, so the concept of pressing keys in sequence is impossible to convey.
Oh oh, this didn’t save before quitting…
If you ended up with a file open and don’t know how to get out, there’s a good chance you shouldn’t be changing that file in the first place.
Why quit out of the superior text editor?
If you were talking about emacs, sure. But this is vi(m), it’s not even a web browser, let alone a full operating system.
Oh, is that what we’re gonna do today? We’re gonna fight?
I didn’t make such statement, don’t strawman me into this fight. But OP asked why you would need to exit out of it. Well maybe because one needs to do other things than edit text. Which wouldn’t be the case if one were to use emacs.
Now you’ve gone and made this personal, buddy.
A question that’s been on my mind for a while: can you run vim in emacs? That way you’d have the best editor in the most comprehensive OS.
After decades using Vim, I wouldn’t choose to exit it… But it would have been nice to have had a choice…
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CTRL+Z
killall -9 vim
You could also run a shell command that kills vim from within vim…
:!killall -9 vim
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Unplug the computer? Got it.
echo "vim garbage.txt" >> ~/.bashrc
ZZ
* Only if you intend to save changes
Hey I know that movie! That was 100% in the movie.
God am i tired of this meme
I don’t know? Are you?
- God
And in a way, you’ve always been predestined to become tired of this meme.