Down that hole

  • :x for write and quit. But I think the more appropriate one in this situation will be :q! which will force quit without saving any modifications, since someone who doesn’t know how to exit vim probably doesn’t want to save whatever modifications they made (probably by mistake).

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      1 year ago

      Thanks for adding this. I’m sure it’ll be useful to know and save me some heartache.

      I tried out Linux a long time ago and have forgotten a lot of what I knew. I’m thinking of switching back again.