Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim

Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by Houshalter on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @09:19PM (#14406911)

I tried it and typing q does not seem to exit the program. Nothing I tried worked and I had to exit the whole terminal.

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Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by flukus on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @02:10AM (#14407919)

Well it's not quite that simple because it's more complicated than those tools. Once you are in ex mode ':' though it uses the standard exit key.

As for if you stuck in insert mode, this is more akin to when you have text highlighted in a GUI editor, the shortcuts change because you're in a different mode.

Remember all editors have modes, vim is just a bit more in your face with them.

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Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by ecshafer on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @10:03PM (#14407098)

You have to type :q to quit. : Is the command mode.

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Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by appleiigs on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @10:20PM (#14407148)

Missing one step. <esc>:q

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Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by dllthomas on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @11:28PM (#14407400)

Actually, the missing step is the <cr> at the end.

The <esc> at the beginning is only necessary if you've already got into insert mode. That said, it'll not do any harm.

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Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by Houshalter on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @11:23PM (#14407381)

So intuitive.

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