How to exit vim – 8 ways

18 thoughts on “How to exit vim – 8 ways”

• MS-DOS had ms-dos editor in 90's. Linux is stuck in the past.

• How did you make what you type display on the screen?

• What if you want to type the character "ZZ" while in text insert mode?

• Thanks solved my problem

• wq! and doesn't happen anything

• I’m still stuck. Everything I hit I get [unknown command]

• wqa and wqa! should be mentioned/

• Or a hammer, you can always use a hammer

• Oh finally I know!

• Can vim be used on phone

• i entered vim on linux for multiple times and could exit all the time

• Or the classic:
  $pkill vim

• But which one is easier you should have mentioned that 😅

• that shift zz hit different

• t'as oublié avec a for all
  :qa
  :qa!
  :qwa (not sure)

• ..impossible

• They said it could not be done…

• Thanks

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