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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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