How to exit vim & learn vim in 5 minutes

• Press Escape, this puts vim in "normal mode".
• write :q! to quit without saving.
• write :wq to quit while saving the file.

That's it. Vim is pretty cool and fast once you learn how to use it.

Check this if you want to learn the basics of Vim in 5 minutes:
Vim in 5 minutes

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Comments

[Jason F]

I saw a meme the other day that said something along the lines of, "if you want to generate a random string ask a windows user to exit vim."

I'm not a vim or vi expert. I've been wanting to learn, but it's been added to the queue of other things to learn. I'll give your video a go. Thanks!