lavender

Note to self: Do not wash the purple knit sweater with any light-colored clothes, as it bleeds, a lot.

exiting Vim

I got stuck in a Vim window yesterday while doing a Git merge after pulling updates. Git wanted me to provide a reason for the merge, which it had never asked for before while doing a merge.
I didn't want to enter a reason; at that point I just wanted to cancel the merge to figure out what had gone wrong. But I had to close the whole window as I couldn't figure out how to quit Vim.

So today I happened to do a search on it, and was amused by these pages:

How to exit vim in 5 simple steps.
OR: Help! I was using git to commit some code and now the window has changed and I don’t know what’s going on!

Stack Overflow: Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim