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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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