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I feel confused at this comment, even suspicious. But did you know that ^C does not actually exit vim?

:q!

Pressing ^C in normal mode tells you how to exit vim.

It does _now_.

One of the most important UX advances of recent years, IMO. Introduced in Vim 6.3, released in June 2004.

>recent years

>2004

:)

That's way after I had to reset a terminal and log back in the first time that I tried to use vi.

First Time I saw that, I was like 'but typing doesn't work'. Then, I fumbled my way into insert mode and managed to type :q . It didn't do anything.

VIM is hard for first time users.