How to exit vi/vim
It’s really easier than you think — but to be sure, take a deeper look into this article.
This piece of software is undoubtedly one of the most tedious one around for any sysadmin or developer alike. People have asked the question that I headlined countless of times on the pages of StackOverflow or broader part of the internet. Today I want to put a serious stop on it!
But first, let’s get to know what people think about vi/vim in general.
So mostly, as you can see, people aren’t too happy about exiting the un-exitable software. If you are a seasoned developer or an admin (hopefully by choice), you might feel like the following:
For all my DevOps friends out there, running their Dockers and Kubernetes’ — that might be a solid solution for you:
On the other hand, it takes only 4–5 keystrokes to actually exit vi(m) — and these are the following.
- Press the “esc” button
- Write in :q if you want to quit without saving the file
- Write in :wq if you want to quit and save the file
- … Profit?
To close things out here, I will leave you guys with a Vim Cheat Sheet provided by linuxacademy.com
