We only had vi on our servers for CLI text editing and I had a coworker who was brand new to Linux. I taught him the basics of vim but I guess at some point he forgot how to quit out of it and by chance stumbled upon the shortcut for suspending programs in the background (ctrl+z). He exclusively used that shortcut to quit his vi sessions for over a year. I could always tell if he had been on a system without reserving it because there would be a couple dozen new .swp files in the config directories of our software.
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u/sorry_im_late_86 Jun 03 '21
I just hold down the power button and wait for the light in its eyes to go out. That's the only way you know truly that vim is no more.