How to quit VIM

A recent post on Reddit says: “2.1 million people visited the page ‘How do I exit the Vim editor?’ according to stack overflow survey”

This is very understandable. Let me answer this.

:Q! — exit without saving

:Q — exit / close window

:w — write / save file

shift-ZZ — exit (attempt, save if needed)

There you go. All of the wonderful and intuitive ways to exit VIM