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Re:Popular Unix Text Editors and How to Exit Them by yes_or_gnome on Friday October 30, 2015 @04:24PM (#10480331)
Or, you could just do the following.

    ## Ctrl-z (suspend current application)
    $ kill -9 %1
That assumes you want to lose your changes which I suspect is okay in this situation since it's 'Howto Quit..' not 'Howto do Make Changes, Write, and Quit...'
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Re:Popular Unix Text Editors and How to Exit Them by _lce0 on Friday October 30, 2015 @06:13PM (#10480844)
hey nice trick to reference background tasks!

Thanks for sharing

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Re:Popular Unix Text Editors and How to Exit Them by Pinckney on Friday October 30, 2015 @07:07PM (#10481088)
Doesn't work with joe.
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Re:Popular Unix Text Editors and How to Exit Them by sebastianavina on Saturday October 31, 2015 @07:50PM (#10484749)
oh my good. use 15 instead of 9. you savage!
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