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Below are some simple methods for exiting vim.

32 mentions on Hacker News by 27 people: 15 stories, 17 comments · first 2019-09-26 · latest 2026-03-29

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  1. Turns out this was the real test of Artificial General Intelligence all along. Also: https://github.com/hakluke/how-to-exit-vim
    comment by tim-tday · 2026-03-29 · in Can AI Exit Vim?
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    How to Exit Vim
    story by mirawelner · 2025-09-01 · 1 comment
  3. There's this: https://github.com/hakluke/how-to-exit-vim
    comment by linhns · 2024-12-13 · in "Rules" that terminal programs follow
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    How to Exit Vim
    story by WayToDoor · 2024-05-19 · 24 comments
  5. Additional methods for vi(m) users [0] :p [0]: https://github.com/hakluke/how-to-exit-vim
    comment by lbeckman314 · 2024-03-13 · in How to Get Out of Vi (2015)
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    How to Exit Vim
    story by FergusArgyll · 2024-01-21 · 3 comments
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    How to Exit Vim
    story by sathishmanohar · 2023-09-19 · 0 comments
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    Below are some simple methods for exiting Vim
    story by donutshop · 2023-06-27 · 0 comments
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    All the ways to Exit Vim
    story by behnamoh · 2023-06-14 · 0 comments
  10. I think you'd enjoy this then: https://github.com/hakluke/how-to-exit-vim .
    comment by I_complete_me · 2023-01-09 · in Vim: ZZ and zz: Do you know the difference?
  11. Have to post this gem [0] about creative ways to exit Vim 0: https://github.com/hakluke/how-to-exit-vim
    comment by RMPR · 2023-01-07 · in Tell HN: Vim users, `:x` is like `:wq` but writes only when changes are made
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    How to Exit Vim
    story by behnamoh · 2022-08-25 · 21 comments
  13. https://github.com/hakluke/how-to-exit-vim
    comment by fsflover · 2022-01-07 · in Vim prank: alias vim='vim -y'
  14. I'll just leave this here - https://github.com/hakluke/how-to-exit-vim
    comment by falcor84 · 2021-12-24 · in Advent of Code Surveys: Results
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    How to Exit Vim
    story by makapuf · 2021-04-12 · 1 comment
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    How to Exit Vim
    story by ibraheemdev · 2021-04-06 · 0 comments
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    How to Exit Vim
    story by ibraheemdev · 2021-02-11 · 0 comments
  18. https://github.com/hakluke/how-to-exit-vim
    comment by cmehdy · 2020-12-25 · in Vim³ – Vim rendered on a cube for no reason
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    How to Exit Vim
    story by manjana · 2020-09-01 · 0 comments
  20. reminds me of the article about how to quit vim https://github.com/hakluke/how-to-exit-vim
    comment by slmjkdbtl · 2020-08-31 · in What Shell Am I Using?
  21. True =)) And then this repo is up: https://github.com/hakluke/how-to-exit-vim
    comment by quyleanh · 2020-07-01 · in How Did Vim Become So Popular?
  22. This is ridiculous. There are more sensible ways to exit vim: https://github.com/hakluke/how-to-exit-vim/blob/master/READM...
    comment by makapuf · 2020-05-26 · in Exiting VIM is hard; sometimes we need to take drastic measures
  23. Related: https://github.com/hakluke/how-to-exit-vim?fbclid=IwAR0DmwId...
    comment by 3001 · 2020-05-26 · in Exiting VIM is hard; sometimes we need to take drastic measures
  24. …sleep, that said I didn't know about ZQ, also for quitting Vim, there's this invaluable resource. https://github.com/hakluke/how-to-exit-vim
    comment by RMPR · 2020-04-21 · in On Quitting Vim
  25. Or this one that came up recently here: https://github.com/hakluke/how-to-exit-vim/blob/master/READM...
    comment by taneq · 2020-01-31 · in The text adventure game of exiting a Telnet session
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    How to Exit Vim
    story by cyberfart · 2020-01-10 · 0 comments
  27. Several comments here have merely duplicated old closed issues. * https://github.com/hakluke/how-to-exit-vim/issues/14
    comment by JdeBP · 2020-01-08 · in How to Exit Vim
  28. I suggest going to https://github.com/hakluke/how-to-exit-vim/issues and filing a bug report that sometimes one needs to type in a Scottish accent.
    comment by JdeBP · 2020-01-08 · in How to Exit Vim
  29. The list actually has that use case covered: https://github.com/hakluke/how-to-exit-vim/blob/master/READM...
    comment by dkersten · 2020-01-08 · in How to Exit Vim
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    How to Exit Vim
    story by justinzollars · 2020-01-08 · 395 comments
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    story by stasel · 2019-09-30 · 0 comments
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    How to Exit Vim
    story by KibbutzDalia · 2019-09-26 · 3 comments