When I was absolutely new to computers I was given a similar instruction. Unfortunately, I didn’t notice whatever the key was actually being its own key, let’s say Ctrl, so I began to press down C+T+R+L.

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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Even today, some people are still looking for the Any key

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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The number of times I have had to explain to people who have more wealth than I ever will that Del is a key and it is different than Backspace…

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Oh oh, this didn’t save before quitting…

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If you ended up with a file open and don’t know how to get out, there’s a good chance you shouldn’t be changing that file in the first place.

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Yes there is definitely that aspect to consider as well:-).

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Why quit out of the superior text editor?

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If you were talking about emacs, sure. But this is vi(m), it’s not even a web browser, let alone a full operating system.

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Oh, is that what we’re gonna do today? We’re gonna fight?

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I didn’t make such statement, don’t strawman me into this fight. But OP asked why you would need to exit out of it. Well maybe because one needs to do other things than edit text. Which wouldn’t be the case if one were to use emacs.

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A question that’s been on my mind for a while: can you run vim in emacs? That way you’d have the best editor in the most comprehensive OS.

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In theory you can fire up vi(m) in an emacs terminal, so… I guess?

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Why would I want an OS to edit text? It’s already on *nix - I want the best text editor smh

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Ahh. ed

Just kidding. It’s vi.

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After decades using Vim, I wouldn’t choose to exit it… But it would have been nice to have had a choice…

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the superior text editor

I never stopped, I’m still using Nano.

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Joke’s on them: those aliens don’t perceive time, so the concept of pressing keys in sequence is impossible to convey.

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CTRL+Z

killall -9 vim

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You could also run a shell command that kills vim from within vim… :!killall -9 vim.

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Killing Vim is already a bummer. Making it commit suicide is sad as it can get.

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