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		Zenst on Jan 8, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to Exit Vim Better they ruin their own soul than inflict upon others is the way to look at that. But then, what type of people don't RTFM besides the whole generation that treat google as their manual and when the internets down, so is there `knowledge` /s.

cerebellum42 on Jan 8, 2020 [–]

RTFM clearly does not apply because you can't read it if you're in vim and can't exit ;)

Zenst on Jan 8, 2020 | [–]

:h or failing that, the tried and trusted :!man vim

Though I'm wondering how many have discovered the first one with some frantic help me after typing the : and got there by accident.

Oh you can apparently just hit F1 in vim, wow.

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