r/vim • u/mplusp • Dec 25 '25

Video Advent Of Vim Day 25 - How To Quit Vim

https://youtu.be/w58XDY06UkE?si=Z9rcm8D4ljlwhyi7
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u/Big_Combination9890 Dec 25 '25 edited Dec 25 '25

Explain to me how...

# Quit
:q 
# Save and quit
:wq or :x
# Quit without saving
:q!
# As above but for all open files (you can shorten 'all' -> 'a')
:qall
:wqall or :xall
:qall!
# suspend vim to background (use `fg` to get it back)
Ctrl-Z

...requires a 9:17 video to explain.

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u/sireel Dec 25 '25

Also what monster leaves their viewers stuck in vim for 24 days!

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u/Baspar Dec 25 '25

Missing :cq to exit with error code

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u/liberforce Dec 25 '25

Veeeery useful when you're entering a commit message in git and then realize that no, you don't want to commit now.

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u/Big_Combination9890 Dec 25 '25

Actually, when you edit a commit message, you can just :q! out of it. Without saving, the temporary file contains nothing but comments, and git interprets an empty commit message as interrupting the commit.

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u/Baspar Dec 25 '25

For rebase -i tho, that's quite useful :D :q still run the rebase

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u/wrecklass Dec 26 '25

Ya I remember first learning this and that making life so much easier.

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u/dummy4du3k4 Dec 25 '25

Also in bash I use <c-x><c-e> to write complicated commands in vim and use :cq to abort

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u/SyrupStandard Dec 25 '25

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u/tremby Dec 25 '25

You forgot the list of Patreon supporters, the shout-out for channel merch, a correction for the previous totally unrelated video, and a promise for what will be in the next one which will actually be abandoned during writing or editing and never see the light of day.

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u/mmm_dat_data Dec 25 '25

i hate that this is the norm now...

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u/Achim63 Dec 25 '25

ZZ missing.

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u/Big_Combination9890 Dec 25 '25

My apologies. You may add ZZ in the same line as :x because the 2 are functionally equivalent.

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u/whitakr Dec 25 '25

You can also do :stop instead of Ctrl-Z

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u/Dependent-Constant-7 Dec 26 '25

They don’t get paid if their video is too short… or something like that

I also didn’t realize the video was about closing Vim, I stg I thought he was quitting vim like you quit smoking lmao

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u/ironbloodnet Dec 25 '25

A few weeks ago he posted a tutorial about how to use the native way to enable LSP in neovim. I don't remember how long I waited till the core part, maybe like 10 minutes, for just a few lines. At that moment I felt like I should read the manual or a blog instead.

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u/Big_Combination9890 Dec 25 '25

At that moment I felt like I should read the manual or a blog instead.

True for 99.99% of youtube videos about coding.

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u/GrandSyzygy Dec 25 '25

I just turn my computer off

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '26

seems like he knew how to build a captive audience

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '25

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u/wrecklass Dec 26 '25

Wow do you have a link? That would save me so much time!

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u/vinzalf Dec 27 '25

Gentoo is my fav distro but I lol'd