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[–] 1984 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

If you dont know how to exit vim, then yes you are...

[–] Malix@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

:what^C^C^C^Z^Z^C^ESCFFUUUUUUUUUU...

[–] 1984 11 points 2 weeks ago

I remember that experience first time and how I had to kill the process from another shell :)

This was before the internet so couldn't exactly google it either.

Fun times. But I figured it out by reading the man page.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Escape, :wq!

Escape enters command mode

: prompts the command

W = write

Q = quit

! forces it