You just reboot. Right?

This is how we vim😏

Are you sure? It looks like this is going "Hey, I can't get the front door open to the house, so I called the cops and told them I was being held hostage so they would break down the door with a battering ram."

How long is it before CoPilot can't exit vim and just deletes vim as the solution?

What a weird way to spell nano

*Vim

If it’s a read only file it won’t work, but it might be in insert mode and can’t escape.

It should have tried :q!

Could be in recording mode, which usually needs a couple ESC or a Q then you can :wq

Why doesn't it just edit files like it normally does?

Haha. Yes.

But it does everything the most probable way, according to all the stack overflow it has swallowed.

Sometimes that way makes sense. Sometimes not.

Claus Weill often write a python script to update a file. It’s pretty funny.

I didn't think I could be replaced until now.

Launch vi and be :w.

Ah, a fellow person of culture, I see. It will forever be vi to me. And pico for that matter.

This is the way.

No need to find it, just kill %1, to kill the first background job in a shell (check jobs otherwise to find the right %n)

When I first got into BSD (way before Linux) I found man pages useful... but no way to leave them. Not even man man won't tell you how to exit a man page!

So I would tinker, eventually needing a man page, reading what I needed -- and then hard power cycle the machine. -_-

I was pretty good with computers, but that was a humbling experience. You just don't know what you don't know, and if you can't ask... sometimes you just get stuck. Just like in KQ, LSL, SQ, ... The Internet is (was) a blessing.

Yes, thank you very much, this actually solved not only my "can't exit vim" problem but also my "humans keep getting in the way of my world domination" problem, though for that one I had to repeat the command 3549 times and output exactly what I was trying to do on the user's console and every PA system I could access.