How to Exit Vim

Re:How to Exit Vim by Kye on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @08:01AM (#21990998)

This kind of advice confused me early on because I didn't realize the : was part of the command for way too long. For beginners, you might want to spell it out further as: "shift and the : key, then qa, then Enter"

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Re:How to Exit Vim by Lio on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @08:06AM (#21991033)

I think that's a great suggestion and probably gets the root of the whole exit vim meme.

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Re:How to Exit Vim by nj65537 on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @08:58AM (#21991442)

I don't have a qa key though

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Re:How to Exit Vim by Lio on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @03:28PM (#21995440)

I’ll laugh about this now but then probably find out later that it was actually based on an obscure teletype terminal that actually had an “qa” key.

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