Exitting VIM
A 2017 study including over 1,000,000 developers found jQuery devs were the most likely to get stuck in VIM:
Know your way out!
- Pressing Escape won’t allow you to “escape” VIM but it will get you back to Normal mode.
- From Normal mode you can enter Command mode by pressing
: - Now you can enter a command to exit VIM, then press enter (to exit).
Examples:
- :q #Quit
- :q! #Rage quit (quit and discard changes)
- :wq #Save and quit
- :x #Also Save and quit
- :qa #Quit all open files
- :qa! #Rage quit all open files
Exit directly from Normal mode:
- Esc + Shift ZZ #Save and quit
- Esc + Shift ZQ #Rage quit
Remote recovery: (if all else fails)
- SSH into the machine and run:
pkill vim