I tried everything, from Esc, Ctrl-C, REISUB, even ctrl-alt-delete.
I gave up and held down the power button
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It's , ':' 'q' . 'Esc' to return to normal mode. ':' to begin entering a command, 'q' to actually quit, and to send the command. For safety, vim does not allow you to quit without saving. You can either override this behaviour by appending a '!' after 'q', to tell vim to quit without saving, or use ':' 'w' , while in normal mode, to save the file first. Writing and quitting can be combined into ':' 'w' 'q' to save and quit.