For people who actually don’t know this, yet: Type :x.
This means “eXit, save any changes”
If you want to leave and discard your changes, type :q!
The :q means “Quit”, without any other instructions. This will warn you if you changed anything, adding ! means “force this command”.
How to quit vim.
Just read this book:
I vaguely remember pressing Alt+F4 while trying to close vim in a terminal once. It did switch to me login prompt so I thought it worked.
Used to use gedit, the found nano and it was awesome. Then found Vim… I RAN back to nano haha
Try micro.
It’s much better and quite easy if not easier to use than nano. It should really be the default simple editor.
For people who actually don’t know this, yet: Type
:x.This means “eXit, save any changes”
If you want to leave and discard your changes, type
:q!The
:qmeans “Quit”, without any other instructions. This will warn you if you changed anything, adding!means “force this command”.