How do I quit Vim??

[M3M3N70]

I was doing Ctrl-x but that was not working and I had to quit the window and lost all of 5 hours of progress on my term paper. Plz help!

[FerrisTheCrab]

It's actually quite simple. Instead of opening Vim with the traditional command:

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vim [filename]

Use this command instead:

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nano [filename]

[hyphen-emdash]

Real programmers use

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emacs [filename]

[FerrisTheCrab]

Real real programmers use

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echo [filedata] > [filename]

[the_bungler]

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