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		simion314 on May 26, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Exiting VIM is hard; sometimes we need to take dra... The issue for me is that sometimes I need to SSH into soem server and maybe check crontab and surprise vim opens, then I need to google again how to exit from vim.

ivanfon on May 26, 2020 [–]

You can press Ctrl+C and it should give you a message reminding you how to quit.

simion314 on May 26, 2020 | [–]

I just google to be safe and not have the content changed by mistake. Because is not happening often I always forget the details so I am never 100% sure of the correct way.

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