Vim user here. The only way to exit vim is to pray to the Vim gods and sacrifice your first born, hoping that they'll cause a cosmic ray to hit the right spot in the memory to flip the right bit that causes it to exit. There are no alternatives.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I usually just power-cycle the machine

[–] Simon@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Are you guys serious? Command q. or x. or wq. or use a proper fucking terminal so you can ctrl -z and resume.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

These is one of the oldest Linux memes. No, they aren't serious. I have a hard time believing anyone here doesn't actually know how to exit vim properly.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I have a hard time believing anyone here doesn't actually know how to exit vim properly.

You power cycle the machine, then run apt-get update && apt-get install nano, right?

Fuckin \s, just in case that wasn't clear