To exit Vim:
- If you are in edit mode, first press the esc key.
- Then enter
:wq+ return to save and exit.
To exit without saving, you can run :q! + return
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Come now, we're just scratching the surface...
Given you're in command mode:
:wqawill write, quit all buffers (in case you have more than one):xwill also save and quit:exas aboveZZwill save and quitZQwill just quit:1,5wqwill save only lines 1 to 5 and quitThere's more. A lot more. Interested?
:h quitwill take you to the Vim help section on quitting.Haha! Absolutely! I was hoping for comments just like this. Thank you, and keep the Vim tricks coming!
It's day 728
I'm still stuck in Vim
With 2.54839e30 possible key-press combinations, it has become evident that my human typing capabilities alone are not going to brute force the phrase that will allow my exit
I am now on the 7th revision of my quantum computer program in an attempt to solve this issue
Send help
😂
You must be far more organized than I am. I feel like I do this all the time.
That's fair. I wish I was much more organized than I am. It was just drilled in me by all my teachers to never close my editor without saving, so I do it almost as a reflex. I used Atom before starting to learn Vim, and would always
<Ctrl-S>before exiting, so now it's:wqall the time.I think part of it is that I also use Vim as a quick way to just read a file, to reference it or check a value. When I do that, I want to ensure I haven't inadvertently made an edit. Vim is helpful in that it defaults to normal mode, but
:q!gives me some extra peace of mind that I haven't done something dumb.Good point! I'll keep that in mind for the future as well. I'm looking forward to learning all the things I can do with it aside from writing code more efficiently.
+1
"How do I undo in vim? Ugh. I hate vim. Stuff this, I'll do it over."
ESC :q!
goes to find a friendly editor, or SCP the file to workstation
SSHFS and VS-Code's remote extension are saving my sanity.
To exit without saving, I suggest
:!kill -9 $PPIDI was taught to pronounce :wq as "write and quit" and :q! As "quit, dammit". 😊
😂
I wish I could find the original where I saw this...
Gandalf, reading a battered old file from the server:
Ctrl-Z
... shell commands
fg
To remember when to use
:wqand:q!without getting confused, I always say it out loud.wq = write (to disk) and quit
q! = quit without writing (to disk)
:saveas filename
Please can someone tell me why this rugged editor is worth using.
I find it COOL but FRUSTRATING.