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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You literally type colon q exclamation mark [enter]

: is basically telling vim that you want to execute a command

q is quit

! means without saving

and hit enter to execute it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

i thought it was a text emoji.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Very important: you have to either be in normal mode first or get there by pressing escape (or <C-[> (aka Ctrl+[)), which is mentioned in the edited image from Arrival, but left out of your explanation.