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[–] kautau@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Forgot

Escape first, because it wants to keep you inside the matrix and you need to tell it you are trying to escape

q!

Because you probably don’t want to save whatever you’ve accidentally done to that file trying to quit, and you have to add an exclamation point because unless you yell loudly at vim it won’t listen