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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Escape, :wq!

Escape enters command mode

: prompts the command

W = write

Q = quit

! forces it