The father didn't believe the boy's claim and dared him to demonstrate exiting Vim without pulling out the power cable that night.

What? A task gets easier the more experience you got with it? I think you're in for a Nobel price or something.

casual nano fan here. can’t stand vim, if my text editor has its own command line then there’s a problem lol

at least we can all come together and say that emacs is the worst

No save and a bang! Damn son you live dangerously.

You can make sure you really yank it out with :qa!

The ol pull and pray

I'm on the emacs side of things, but knowing at least the bare minimum of vim is handy, because I have run into into systems (usually very small systems like routers or something) where some vi variant is available and nothing else is. Though as systems get bigger, it has become more the norm to have at least nano also available.

I'd know at least this:

• i to enter insert mode. Then you can edit as in a non-modal editor.

• Esc to exit insert mode and go back to normal mode.

• h, j, k, l move left, down, up, and right. The fingers under your right hand on a QWERTY keyboard.

• / to start a regex search

• % and then SRC/REPLACEMENT to do a regex replacement.

• :q to exit without saving changes.

• :wq to save and exit.

That's enough to perform a couple of small edits or something if need be.

I've been trying to get good at vim recently and the more I learn how to do, the more I love it. I already hit the inflection point of being better with vim then regular text editors, but I can tell I'm nowhere near as fast as I can be

Just don't pull out.

Rebooting your pc everytime gets annoying after a while

It literally gives you instructions on how to exit if it thinks that's what you're trying to do...

:wq is the save way.