How fitting that the tutorial for vim needs its own pre-tutorial for exiting.

Izkata · on Jan 20, 2021

It's also in the tutor, lesson 1.2

But there's actually nothing special about vimtutor here: all it does is write a temporary file and then open it in vim.

samstave · on Jan 20, 2021

Before replying to your post I upvoted, I had to hit a link called [REPLY]

alfiedotwtf · on Jan 20, 2021

Having seen machines that have hundreds of Vim sessions opened because “system integrators” didn’t know how to exit Vim, it should be the very first thing taught

johannes1234321 · on Jan 21, 2021

Luckily vim finally got a bit better with that: on a Ctrl-C newer versions now show instructions for quitting.

I remember my first vi sessions (typically via something like `crontab -e` where it wasn't clear to me it picked my "default" editor ... thus didn't know where to read up on it ...) some long time ago, where i knew `kill` before the right command ...