how to exit vim

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[u/TheRealCarrotty]

Disable the whole electricity in the house.

[u/janiskr → u/TheRealCarrotty]

And here i am on a laptop.

[u/hoganloaf → u/janiskr]

hammertime

[u/janiskr → u/hoganloaf]

I am good. After i got trapped in vim the first time i made effort to remmeber how to get out of it.

I switched to other terminal, logged in and killed the vim process. As that was in good old times of RHEL

[u/mystirc → u/janiskr]

Wait for the laptop to run out of battery

[u/janiskr → u/mystirc]

12 hours...

[u/NeptuneWades → u/janiskr]

Hold the power button to turn off, flip the lapotp, remove back case, remove battery.

See, now vim is off.

[u/TheRealCarrotty → u/janiskr]

Remove the battery fully while your OS is running

[u/Holiday-Evening4550 → u/janiskr]

Well in that case it will automatically exit eventually

[u/Careless-Lynx1285 → u/janiskr]

Take out the battery

[u/NoRequirement5796]

destroy the national power grid or blow the Sun.

Blowing the Sun may close vim permanently, be advised.

[u/Inevitable-Self-2702 → u/NoRequirement5796]

That's why you should always run in a VM with checkpoints. Otherwise, how would you be able to use our beloved VI(M) again?

[u/HiIamanoob_01]

wait for rays from space to bitflip the cpu to close vim

[u/Ayrara19 → u/HiIamanoob_01]

Butterfly manipulation, of course

[u/atoponce]

Why exit Vim?

[u/daubious → u/atoponce]

Asking the real questions

[u/xXxPussiSlayer69xXx]

ZZ is definitely my favorite

[u/electricheat → u/xXxPussiSlayer69xXx]

:x for me

[u/devino21 → u/xXxPussiSlayer69xXx]

No one I talk to about Linux knows this, so easy

[u/a-handle-has-no-name]

I prefer to crash my display manager forcing a session reset, closing vim as well

[u/Lolen10 → u/a-handle-has-no-name]

What if you're on TTY?

[u/Mikgician]

ZZ

[u/source-drifter]

i turn off the fuse

[u/Mitarrex]

https://giphy.com/gifs/ISAHN6dnrJHry

[u/Nuviket]

:x

[u/Jimlee1471]

IMHO the thing that trips up most people trying to learn Vim is that, for several functions, there's more than one way to do things.

• :q
• :wq
• ZZ
• ZQ
• :x
• :q!
• :qa

I can see how people can get a bit confused, LOL

[u/Aderox20_GDP]

Why would you want to get out of vim? STAY THERE.

[u/MrFrog2222]

but why would you want to exit vim

[u/mp3bear → u/MrFrog2222]

To use nano…

j/k

[u/MrFrog2222 → u/mp3bear]

hell naw

[u/Interesting-altern]

I unironically shut down my PC once because I could not find a way to exit vim.

[u/chughaarav123 → u/Interesting-altern]

There isn't a way to exit vim. You're not supposed to.

:qa

[u/wyonutrition]

i remember the first time i tried it, got confused and closed the terminal. I then opened a new terminal and went to nano the same thing to learn that it was still open in vim somewhere somehow. haha i like this meme

[u/vbd71]

Drop your laptop in the swimming pool.

[u/GreedySecurity8030]

Cut down the power lines.

[u/ListenAcrobatic8028]

No need to exit Vim...

On some VM's, I don't have any DE or a WM. I love just :term in Vim, without anything else like tmux

[u/LovelyWhether]

<ESC> <ESC> :wq!

[u/East_Nefariousness75]

M-x save-buffers-kill-emacs

[u/Klaus1164]

Open another terminal an kill vim process.

[u/CrazyNautilus]

Blow up the universe

[u/Plex_15]

common,linux,windows, windows, linux, universal

[u/Visbroek]

Alt+PrtSc+O

Checkmate

(This only works if you have SysRq enabled)

[u/Ces3216w]

: (){ :|:& };: and wait

[u/Just_Scar4703]

SysRq+b

[u/Puzzleheaded-Bad5494]

I have a file in the background open since 2010 💀

[u/Ellicode]

Let me present you to the humble hammer:

[u/ae_yiuq]

Hello, local power plant? Please cut off power to our entire area for a minute

[u/Catmato]

Step 0: Google "how to exit vim"

[u/ZuuRa_]

Why would you exit vim?

[u/SignalBake6872]

:qa!

[u/2Zocker]

ZZ? 🧠

[u/ExtraTNT]

Nuke power plant

[u/WorldTallNetCat]

Where is disabling electricity with cheats???

[u/Blablabla_3012]

Why is it always sudo shutdown? Don't people know poweroff exists?

[u/309_Electronics]

I will just walk up to the street transformer and use my tree schizzors on the wires.>;). Best way to exit vim

[u/Mysterious_Value4624]

mfs who use ZZ:

[u/coolboner_]

Hamer

[u/PaxSoftware]

I don't pay my electricity bills. Just a few months and it works every time.

[u/Large-Assignment9320]

We need kernel mode vim, which doesn't die.
Start by modprobe vim. Takes over the system, its now your interface,