Skip to main content

You are not logged in. Your edit will be placed in a queue until it is peer reviewed.

We welcome edits that make the post easier to understand and more valuable for readers. Because community members review edits, please try to make the post substantially better than how you found it, for example, by fixing grammar or adding additional resources and hyperlinks.

3
  • 1
    In my case it stuck in insert mode because i had accidentally used ` -y ` in commandline As said in manual: -y Start Vim in easy mode, just like the executable was called "evim" or "eview". Makes Vim behave like a click-and-type editor. To exit this "ease mode" just use <kbd>CTRL</kbd> + <kbd>l</kbd> (L lowercase) as said by +SandRock
    – ton
    Commented Jan 22, 2018 at 13:06
  • I accidently entered :set insertmode CTRL-L got me out of it.
    – ZaSter
    Commented Nov 3, 2020 at 19:37
  • I changed a command line from diff -y (side-by-side) to vimdiff -y and then wondered what was going on. Commented Nov 12, 2021 at 14:25