Just a PSA

If they don't understand this, can we even call it intelligent life?

I just shoot myself whenever I want to leave vim

wrong: you press esc multiple times to make sure you are in normal mode.

sudo nano

until the moment you realize that somehow you are not on your native keyboard layout and where the hell is : and ! in this weird language??!

"I use Arch Linux btw"

*doesn't know how to use vim

Pottery

ESC Z Z

Although I usually bang ESC a few times to
make sure i’m back to command mode

Great, now all my changes are lost. Thank you very much!

Yanks power cord

:r! shutdown -p now always works in a pinch ;)

Ctrl-z

ps

kill -9 pid

fg

Ok ok, I know it's a meme, but gentle reminder that :x is :w and :q combined (save and exit). I got taught that in high school (it was a dec unix with real vt120 terminals) and luckily for me I remembered that even if I didn't touch vi for a few years afterwards.

i think you mean ctrl s and ctrl x

What is this sorcery?! I thought you had to reboot each time to exit.

META-C :wq!

ESC is all the way over there and my hand is already on the space bar.

That's only if you don't want to save first (ahem write the buffer).

Joke's on them I'm using Emacs as an OS so when I want to exit vi I just C-a M-exit C-r C-y.

But I don't want to stop.

I prefer ctrl-[ instead of escape

[ESC] wq

ZQ

From phone: ssh user@server killall vim

ZZ