How to Exit Vim

Walk over to that one guy's desk at the office, you know the one. Ask for his help. Then you just have to wait through about 5 minutes of "Modal editors are very simple once you know how they work! A command is composed of..." and after that he'll tell you what keys to press.

I assume somebody thought this was funny?

If you do the first example, won't that lead to a .swp file still being present, then a warning next time you start vim?

&lt;lobbing hand grenade&gt;<p>Modal editing is fundamentally-insane UX.

Handy reference. I typically use a variant of &quot;the suspend way,&quot; but I might try &quot;the canonical way&quot; one day.

out-of-band way:<p>echo &quot;cd &#x2F;system1&#x2F;pwrmgtsvc1; reset&quot; | ssh -T ADMIN@&lt;BMC-IP&gt;

Bravo. Plus makes for an excellent demonstration of the flexibility of unix

My go-to:<p>`Ctrl-Z, kill -9 %1`