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The CNC machine seems to be significantly easier to turn off when you’re done with it, though. Judging from the memes, anyway - I’ve never had to use vim, thankfully.
ESC
then
:wq
Write quit
:q!
Force quit (no save)
I don't even use vim, other than for commit messages lol
You can also use
:xto write and quit, from memory.It’s very heavily overstated how difficult it is to exit VI.
No, no it's not