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[โ€“] Endmaker@ani.social 34 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (13 children)

Personally, I have seen so many memes about exiting vim that by the time I got to use it for the first time, exiting it was a no-brainer.

For any newbies out there, the command is

:wq
[โ€“] Badabinski@kbin.earth 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There's also ZZ ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿ˜Ž๐Ÿ‘‰ Same caveats apply, smash that fukken esc key (for bonus points rebind caps lock as esc) then ZZ Top your way out of that shit.

[โ€“] msage@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago

This is the most correct answer.

Rebind Caps to Esc.

ZZ (or ZQ if you don't want to save the file).

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