How to quit VIM

Welcome to the wonderful world of VIM. :)

I can completely understand the frustration you might be feeling upon finding this site. Its easy though.

1. Press <ESC>

• This is to make sure you are in command mode

2. Type :q and press <ENTER>

• In VIM, you begin commands with the colon followed by any number of characters that represent commands. In this case, you want q for quit.

3. Learn how to use VIM because its totally worth it.

Learn VIM

I was skeptical at first. I used nano for most quick edits in the shell and VSCode for all my other development work. But after working through VIM with Vigor from the writers of The Linux Command Line book, I was hooked.

Give it a shot. There’s a lot to learn and its actually a lot of fun.