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This is a community that is only for nerds jk. everyone who doesn't scare when seeing UNIX terminal welcome! rules:

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  2. retro operating systems, e.g. discussion about them, is strictly forbidden, please make a retro community instead.
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I tried everything, from Esc, Ctrl-C, REISUB, even ctrl-alt-delete.

I gave up and held down the power button

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[–] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago

It's , ':' 'q' . 'Esc' to return to normal mode. ':' to begin entering a command, 'q' to actually quit, and to send the command. For safety, vim does not allow you to quit without saving. You can either override this behaviour by appending a '!' after 'q', to tell vim to quit without saving, or use ':' 'w' , while in normal mode, to save the file first. Writing and quitting can be combined into ':' 'w' 'q' to save and quit.