I finally learned how to exit Vim

Have you ever made the mistake of opening Vim and don't know how to get out? In this video, I'll finally explain how to exit Vim once and for all...
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[@maxwellkjr]

Thanks. I can finally stop unplugging my computer

[@legends_assemble4938]

Had to do this a lot of times...

[@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunked]

​@@legends_assemble4938:3 VIM you can just use a keybind to close, or use the close button on most distros. Lol

[@QIKUGAMES-QIKU]

I was going to say just do this

[@annyone3293]

I prefer laptops, so I just buy a new one every time I accidentally open vim.

[@maxwellkjr]

@@annyone3293 yes this also works

[@NerdistRay]

Thanks. Now I can finally stop wiping and reinstalling my OS every time I accidentally open Vim.

[@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunked]

:3 Vim you can just use a keybind to close, or use the close button on most distros. Lol

[@philosan338]

bro didn't get the joke @@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunked

[@azxx5745]

​@@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunkedit's a JOKE??????!!!!!!?!!?

[@keddy804]

u shouldn't use linux moron@@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunked

[@BRY0402]

​@@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunkedwheres that? most of the time i buy a new computer after each vim usage and i've never seen it

[@stoicfloor]

Thank you brother. Now I don't have to buy a new laptop every time I opened vim

[@scottb4029]

Wow , now I don't have to wait until the battery goes dead.

[@techtude]

🤣🤣😂

[@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunked]

World Of Warcraft? Just Kittens. Haha.

[@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunked]

​@@techtudexD

[@baranjan6969]

Professional linux tip for beginners: Battery dies faster when computer unplugged

[@balb4903]

You can quit Vim but once opened Vim never really quit you

[@halladba101]

Goddamm that hits hard!

[@powerdude_dk]

That's philosophical on so many levels.

[@glensarge]

'its not immediately obvious' he says whilst staring at a screen that literally says ':q to exit'

[@querela92]

And then your start with "q" since you didn't know the colons were also required (and not some weird layouting issue) ... 😢

[@fish3977]

​@@querela92now my screen is just full of Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q

[@brightblackhole2442]

i pressed q at first then realized the colons were part of the command but now i cant get out of this weird history window??? please any suggestions ive been without water for 3 days

[@krem2335]

​@@brightblackhole2442:x my friend

[@Art2om]

​@@brightblackhole2442Man, that's unlucky. The only way out now is to wait for the Day of Judgment, and the day right after it, you have to find a lobster; climb on to a mountain and make it whistle in E minor.

[@acebasher1st360]

Linux users trying to convince me why they like the "cleaner" design

[@EricMurphyxyz]

Trying to install a web browser in linux be like

[@shroomer3867]

Linux users trying not to have different commands/applications/desktops/distributions that all do the same thing, challenge impossible

[@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunked]

​@@shroomer3867they are actually quite different in commands, in server abilities, in security, in styles of layout, etc. Over 600 distros. Far more choice and customisation than Windows. You can only be so different at some point. Plus, VIM you can just use a keybind to close, or use the close button on most distros. Lol

[@andymorin9163]

@@EricMurphyxyzemerge -a firefox

[@andymorin9163]

@@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunkedor use ZZ to save and quit or ZQ to quit without saving :)

[@techvishnuyt]

Thanks, I was about to buy a new computer but you saved me

[@EricMurphyxyz]

Always glad to save a computer from vim, thanks for the donation!

[@andrewg.2996]

Also "pkill vim" is an option if you're not in the mood to finding process IDs

[@EricMurphyxyz]

That's too advanced for me

[@fish3977]

Killall vim

[@godnyx117]

@@EricMurphyxyz Exactly! Like what is he gonna tell us next? To use ":q"?

[@Abcd-mk9rh]

​@@godnyx117it's in the starting page 😅 :q to exit

[@Silverfang_X]

Holy shit , 9 years ....9 long years I was stuck in vim. Thank you so much man.

[@Ahghoh7a]

I usually just hold power key for 30 seconds. Works very good.

[@powerdude_dk]

:q

[@EricMurphyxyz]

Wow, a video on how to exit vim, how original

[@milchTheRealOne]

i first read the text and then i noticed your name being a diffrent color. XD

[@rochr4]

Maybe do a full reboot so no hostile vim is left doing mischief in the background, You got this!)

[@sym178]

Thank You Brother. I thought it was an arch problem( like they say, it's not stable ) I was about to go back to ubuntu.

[@mctechcraft7]

“It’s actually surprisingly simple” - Mumbo Jumbo

[@74Bagas]

love it, it's perfection, i mean almost, but yeah it is just behind "unplug the computer"

[@EricMurphyxyz]

Definitely the easiest solution

[@aeebeecee3737]

Employee: oh no boss, sorry i accidentally open the vim… Boss: shutdown the power now

[@Luizo_]

Thankfully, i can now stop to wipe every universe in which I've opened vim

[@Ch1llyWasNeverHere]

instructions unclear: got fork bombed and lost 1000000 lines of code

[@Xtrems]

Thank you brother, I don't have to stop myself from paying the electric bill anymore

[@greyy000]

Thank you, now I no longer have to destroy my local power plant to exit!

[@fanbat]

I accidentally opened vim on every server in the data center I work at, and we had to completely replace every server. If only I had seen this sooner

[@bitcode_]

Exit vim meme 2.0 👏👏👏👏👏

[@Barty.Crowell]

It's weird going back to a meme video to find out how to use grep

[@Tezarak]

The fact I thought this was real for so long proves how gullible I am

[@jasoncravens1124]

A totally genius "target audience" concept for content delivery. Showing a quick little system tool usage tutorial, which was not complicated, but it was. Who are the people most likely to absorb this? Anyone already in a terminal. The same people will accidentally open vim. Compared to the number of people who will watch tutorials on system tools, and how many different ones they'd have to watch before learning so many (ps, grep, xargs, kill and even awk) commands... you've devised a clever way to deliver a excellent lesson on command operations, covertly, but still for a useful reason. You could have just told them 'pkill vim', but nobody learns that way. I dig it, and in a short. Very impressive!

[@dontknow6451]

well the vim says :q , I think that was slow always the needed the quick way to exit vim, Now I will your way to exit it.

[@ahmedhalim1200]

That's in fact the simplest way possible

[@EricMurphyxyz]

True

[@ottersmeep25]

^C exists too...

[@pyl2981]

no it doesnt

[@BlahajE]

or just read what's written right there "type :q to exit" and do that

[@Dark-ix9dv]

Thanks bro now i dont have to remove the battery every time when i need to exit vim.

[@funtrix_123]

thanks, now i can stop getting rid of my computer every time i accidentally open up a file in vim

[@TarebossT]

Thanks! Exit vim with Shift+Z+Q was too hard.

[@EricMurphyxyz]

Agreed, this is way easier

[@jelleqsc]

average linux user:

[@PuhlReshaped]

​@fake_artificial_dopamine Lmao

[@TechnicalHeavenSM]

"Exit vim to your heart's content"..LMAO😂😂🤣

[@yuvraj6770]

I prefer pulling out chord from outlet, its quicker and easier

[@Zumito]

So I can stop buying a new smart house everytime I open vim by mistake on the server that controls the house?

[@WeirdDuck781]

Yes, you will know these commands by heart but you still wont be able to quit Vim within its own ui

[@SolathPrime]

Did you try ESC + ":q!" + ENTER ?

[@Neclony]

ACTUALLY you don't need ESC or ! if you did not change something(editing mode). :D But for real, vim is the only editor that I had found on every distro until now, thats the only reason I like it. I never have to look which editor works.

[@sephirothhojo2678]

It’s easy, in normal mode just type “:q” and it will quit, with “:” signifying that you want to type a Vim command, and “q” signifying quit.

[@chanwo_opark]

Uhh no? Youre supposed to pour water onto your computer. Source: vim --help

[@lizardinthelites]

this joke would be a lot funnier if it didnt say 'type q to exit' literally in the middle of the screen

[@scvnthorpe__]

We do a lil trolling

[@hruzen]

Thank God! You saved my time 🥺. I was about to produce new pc compartment as I was stuck in vim

[@sunitbhattacharya]

Dude!! Thanks I laughed so much after a really long time!!!

[@gokunik]

Rip for people who were looking for a short tutorial to exit vim and found this video.

[@yttrium220]

Technically speaking it is short lasting a minute, right?

[@wiillou]

ah every time I manually unscrew the bottom of my laptop and take out the battery and order a new one! This will save me so much time!

[@oglothenerd]

It is so easy! Close the terminal.

[@-Kal-]

Open a new terminal. That way you keep your changes.

[@Svyatoclav]

next vid how to exit nano pls I still can't figure it out since I opened it 22 days ago in my Gentoo VM...

[@pyp2205]

Press ctrl + x "y" to save changes or "n" to discard it and exit. If you pressed "Y" press enter to save it to the file and it will exit.

[@chanwo_opark]

Unplug computer

[@kaeji_namitsua]

@@chanwo_opark My grandpa stopped breathing. Next step?

[@friendlyfire7861]

​@@kaeji_namitsua😅

[@itsafroggytime]

yep this is exactly how we did it in my c programming classes!!

[@tejassharma8569]

First tip: use `killall vim`. Not `killall -9 vim`. Doing the second way (a brutal, immediate sigkill) causes the terminal to break and the scrolling to malfunction until the `reset` command is entered. The first way sends a sigterm, and the vim closes the window before exiting (but does not save changes). Second tip: use `killall vim`. It is a simple command; not a lot of things piped which would prove to be a nightmare for the noob who does not know what is what.

[@ThtsWhaSheSaid64]

Never used or know what vim is but seems very useful I think

[@kenzie4217]

Finally i dont have to buy a new smart fridge

[@nickstarlingch]

Vim? Grep? Awk? Xargs? Computer? You're just making these words up.

[@nil-desperandum]

Well, I have been stuck in vim for so long, now I am already used to living in it. I learnt how to do everything in vim. I am even watching your video using vim! Man, why would you ever want to exit it?

[@itsSujeetMahto]

finally, this is so easier than doing :q

[@himanshuhande7467]

such a simple way, thanks now i don't have to through my laptop and buy a new one

[@ALulzyApprentice]

So much easier than using the power button. Thanks!

[@Living_Anthrax]

Stayed for the funnies. Leaving with knowledge and power. 💪

[@KrappiTheClown]

Well... you're not WRONG...

[@victor8284]

I think ill just continue to change my identity and start a new family everytime i open vim

[@tafaraobed]

Broo...solved the age old question

[@omeryy3507]

its simple just press esc and write :wq (to exit and save)

[@sshivam6955]

Thank you , now i don't have to start a new company and manufacture new laptop every time i open vim by mistake.

[@sluggy6074]

I feel like such an idiot now. Can't believe I couldn't figure that out. I'll be doing this to exit out of every program from now on. I can finally rage quit after I break my mouse.

[@Gilded30]

I know its a joke but really to exit vim : Hit escape first for making sure you are in "command mode" then type :q! And finally enter

[@owofied_]

Wait... it's possible to exit vim?

[@EvertonToledoDeMoraes]

Now that I know how to exit Vim, wtf is a Vim?

[@CactusPie96]

this is nightmare, never gonna use vim, thx for warning me

[@HexDefender]

my whole teenage was a lie... I was entering ESC and :wq to save and quit the file... 😂

[@its_code]

😊😊😊 I really need this

[@NullableIsLive]

ehh, this doesnt save ur files just use "shift + : + q" and to save use "shift + : + qw"

[@VarVarJeg]

thank you, now i dont have to buy a new motherboard and graphics card every time i wanna close vim

[@milchTheRealOne]

finally bro thank you so much! now i dont have to code an enitre new kernel wm or de all drivers and everything else every time i exadentaly open vim instead of nano.

[@yaynative]

I'm pretty sure I've exited Vim a time or two but I definitely don't remember how 🤔

[@ItsPrussia]

Thanks bro, i always reinstall vim to exit vim

[@StabbedPerson]

"Hey man I'm getting into coding, but I'm having a bit of confusion with this one thing." "Oh thats so cool, I know a lot about many different languages, though I'm more into object oriented coding. What do you use?" "Well, I haven't settled on that yet, you see, I installed Vim, and-" **Crashes through third story window to escape the conversation**

[@forevergold108]

It really shouldn’t be this funny 😂

[@futotta-neko]

Thank you, I can sleep now

[@edga7490]

In my experience, if you spam Ctrl-C couple of times, it gives you option to type :qa to exit

[@xzaratulx]

If you really need to, just close the terminal the vim was started in.

[@olivers.7821]

I can't tell if that is a mene or an actual issue when using Vim.

[@jebk3447]

its a meme

[@PuhlReshaped]

This video is shit, but vim confuses me so much I always press q and just use nano.

[@ysxki]

I'm honestly concerned about the ppl that are taking this seriously and trying to remember this whole command to exit vim 💀

[@fazelium]

"just remember this SIMPLE command" 💀

[@sb16650]

Finally! I used to run sudo rm -rf /* --no-preserve-root to exit vim. This was a great help!

[@EricMurphyxyz]

I remember reinstalling my OS every time I used to exit vim too, I'm glad I found this method

[@friendlyfire7861]

Oh, ya...very simple. The year of Linux is just around the corner.

[@enby_shout1991]

I love that this is super useful information but for the stupidest action ever

[@AlexdAviator]

POV you are in 2023 and everyone forgot about :wq

[@mestrebimbashouse]

Ironically enough, one of my first things when learning about vim was ":wq"

[@eclipse.241]

oh wow, now I don't need to poweroff & poweron my machine again hahaha

[@Kevin-jb2pv]

The best part is that there are absolutely Linux users who will go through all of this to close Vim just to flex at that weird looking creature in the mirror.

[@bredket3334]

Thanks bro, now I don't need to wait until my next reincarnation.

[@mr.sloth.]

I even have an alias in zshrc with that command and with :q shortcut, idk why they didn't think that

[@dantechoppa4372]

I use Arch BTW 💀

[@visthj]

Thanks. Now i don't need to disable electricity in my house everytime i open vim

[@learnprogrammingwww]

just press esc and type ZQ or ZZ

[@dantitube7498]

Grep the grep command

[@Manan_K]

Good one brother xD

[@user-mg4tu8mn5b]

Thank you, now I dont need to wait till the heat death of the universe and the next big bang

[@thelittlepig9136]

why not use top

[@pyp2205]

I remember when I was learning Linux from an online course, it was teaching how to use command line text editors. And I remember having trouble exiting vim, and I was like "Why does anyone use this editor?". But of course at some point I understood how to use vim, and I use it for some things.