Published Feb 12 2019
Want to save your changes and exit? Press the esc
key, then type :wq
, which means w
rite and q
uit.
Want to exit without saving changes? Press the esc
key, then type :q!
Don’t feel bad, you’re not alone in not knowing how to exit Vim,, and if you search Twitter you’ll see all sorts of memes and funny tweets:
It also looks to be one (if not the one) most popular question on Stack Overflow.
Don’t get me wrong. I like Vim. I don’t love it, it’s just a tool. I usually use VS Code for day to day writing and coding, but I sometimes use it.
I wrote an entire book on this topic 👇
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