How do I exit the Vim editor?

Hit the Esc key to enter “Normal mode”. Then you can type : to enter “Command-line mode”. A colon (:) will appear at the bottom of the screen and you can type in one of the following commands. To execute a command, press the Enter key. :q to quit (short for :quit) :q! to quit … Read more

vim remove non existing mapping [closed]

It fails because do_map returns 2 for unknown mapping and this code throws error for this case. Not very helpful, I guess. Annotate says that this code did not change from the very first version of vim found in the mercurial repository (7.0001). There may be different answers: I can guess of three: vi compatibility: … Read more