How do you exit, then, if you never learned :q?

worble · on Jan 8, 2020

He never did, some say he's still in vi to this day.

DarkWiiPlayer · on Jan 8, 2020

The story of every 2 out of 3 vim users

exikyut · on Jan 9, 2020

4 out of 3* FTFY

Or perhaps it's 5, or 6.

dan-robertson · on Jan 8, 2020

Switch to a different terminal, log in, find the process, kill it.

SAI_Peregrinus · on Jan 8, 2020

ctrl-z to background it. Then `kill` it.

vidarh · on Jan 9, 2020

That was how I'd exit vi for a long time. Often "killall vi" because any other vi instances running would in any case be by accident.

I once caused a near rebellion of vi users when I was running an ISP and symlinked vi to emacs on our shell server because I was sick and tired of it...