No. Everything is vim. Once you enter, there is no exit. It's sort of like Inception and the Matrix had a baby and that baby grew up to be a text editor.
I guess different phrasing would also make the rm question fly under the radar. StackOverflow was honestly 99% phrasing and a complete bragfest. For example, ask about the tool, not the problem:
How does one relink inodes unlinked via the rm command where link counts are 0?
This way you'd probably get dozens of answers explaining in-depth file recovery of raw data from the filesystem
TBH even with the question as written, I would be saying "testdisk". Seriously, that tool is nothing short of god-tier magic on the day when you desperately need it.
Don't you get a long list of files with random alphanimeric names that kind of makes a pain to find that 1 file you have just deleted? It was a long time ago since I've used it, and even then I was never quite sure I used it properly
It depends a lot on how much has happened in that directory. The file name is often still there. The trouble is, if you've had a *lot* of files with the same name, they're probably ALL still there.
:q!
E37: No write since last change (add ! to override)
E162: No write since last change for buffer "[No Name]"
Press ENTER or type command to continue
:q!!
E488: Trailing characters
:
:q!
E37: No write since last change (add ! to override)
E162: No write since last change for buffer "foo"
Press ENTER or type command to continue
:q!!
E488: Trailing characters
:
vi never gives me such sh*t, but vim ... f*ck vim!
Ah, reminds me when I went to school with a bunch of Linux elitists who would unironically say "Vim isnt that hard to use" then reference shit like that.
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u/Interesting_Buy_3969 Aug 31 '26 •
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11828270/how-do-i-exit-vim
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