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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?
  2. There's this: https://github.com/hakluke/how-to-exit-vim
    comment by linhns · 2024-12-13 · in "Rules" that terminal programs follow
  3. 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)
  4. 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?
  5. 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
  6. https://github.com/hakluke/how-to-exit-vim
    comment by fsflover · 2022-01-07 · in Vim prank: alias vim='vim -y'
  7. 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
  8. https://github.com/hakluke/how-to-exit-vim
    comment by cmehdy · 2020-12-25 · in Vim³ – Vim rendered on a cube for no reason
  9. 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?
  10. 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?
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. …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
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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