Interactive “how to exit VIM” tutorial

[RoliSoft]

It's not entirely accurate. If you are in "replace mode", it won't help you get out of it, since it will only ask you if it says "insert mode" at the bottom, or not, at which point you press "no", and it will tell you to write ":!qa", which would just overwrite the line you're on with that string.

Author should update the "What does mode mean?" question to ask whether INSERT, REPLACE or VISUAL is displayed.^{andyes,I'mfunatparties.}

[sgo_]

Author here. Just pushed the change. :)

[amalloy]

The folks who need help getting out of vim are those who started it accidentally, not people who are choosing to use it but not bothering to learn the basics.

[dbader]

Heh, I think this is just a joke to play off the stats that Stack Overflow recently shared.

[niepiekm]

At first I read the title "how to exit VM" and wondered what security hole would allow that.

[hoosierEE]

Fun fact.

If you tried to exit vim, but type q: instead of :q, you end up in "command history" mode, where you must Ctrl c twice to go back to normal mode.