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

Why do people just don't ESC :x? Do I miss something when not using q!?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

:x also writes (same as :wq). :q! is force quit. If you accidentally made changes then :q will give an error and :x will write those changes. So :q! Is you safest bet if you need to gtfo.

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

Now that you write it... I use :q! all the time but I did not realize. I guess that is just muscle memory :-)