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Re:How to Exit Vim by wffurr on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @07:04AM (#21990621)
How do you exit, then, if you never learned :q?
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Re:How to Exit Vim by worble on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @07:10AM (#21990656)
He never did, some say he's still in vi to this day.
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Re:How to Exit Vim by DarkWiiPlayer on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @07:46AM (#21990877)
The story of every 2 out of 3 vim users
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Re:How to Exit Vim by exikyut on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @08:48PM (#21997744)
4 out of 3* FTFY

Or perhaps it's 5, or 6.

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Re:How to Exit Vim by dan-robertson on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @05:00PM (#21996254)
Switch to a different terminal, log in, find the process, kill it.
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Re:How to Exit Vim by SAI_Peregrinus on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @02:56PM (#21995104)
ctrl-z to background it. Then `kill` it.
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Re:How to Exit Vim by vidarh on Thursday January 09, 2020 @06:09AM (#22000192)
That was how I'd exit vi for a long time. Often "killall vi" because any other vi instances running would in any case be by accident.

I once caused a near rebellion of vi users when I was running an ISP and symlinked vi to emacs on our shell server because I was sick and tired of it...

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