Timeline for Vim Stuck In Insert Mode
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| Sep 26, 2023 at 19:15 | comment | added | Nagev |
Your question was my answer, thanks. On Mac Terminal, ESC and CTRL+q had no effect. Your F1 trick helped me get back to command mode so I could quit.
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| Feb 14, 2022 at 6:57 | answer | added | Sangria | timeline score: 9 | |
| Mar 7, 2021 at 6:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/super_user/status/1368441297137246209 | ||
| Mar 5, 2021 at 15:35 | answer | added | Wes | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 29, 2020 at 21:37 | comment | added | Victoria Stuart | This sometimes happens to me: accidentally freezing Vim, in a xfce4-terminal (it's actually the terminal that is frozen). Various xon-xoff solutions (Ctrl-Q ...) had no effect. Although no keyboard shortcut was evident, I noticed that from the terminal menu that the terminal had become set to "Read-Only." Unchecking that restored terminal responsiveness. | |
| Aug 3, 2019 at 16:00 | comment | added | sametcodes | Today I was stuck in insert mode then I realized that mistakenly configured a shortcut on my konsole profile for ESC key... | |
| Sep 6, 2018 at 21:40 | answer | added | vim_user | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 3, 2018 at 13:04 | comment | added | ricardo | this just happened to me after a fresh install of gvim: turns out I was in gvim-easy … which is not so easy if you expect it to behave like vim. | |
| Sep 21, 2017 at 9:47 | answer | added | SandRock | timeline score: 10 | |
| Nov 10, 2016 at 17:41 | comment | added | Daniel | My first thought when reading this: "Oh he broke his 'Get me the heck out of here' button" | |
| May 4, 2011 at 20:45 | answer | added | bhaskar | timeline score: 226 | |
| Apr 11, 2010 at 22:07 | vote | accept | Levi Hackwith | ||
| Apr 11, 2010 at 21:55 | answer | added | Dennis Williamson | timeline score: 30 | |
| Apr 11, 2010 at 21:42 | comment | added | Levi Hackwith |
The Ctrl-[ worked. Rock on! This saves me a lot of frustration. Is there any chance you can explain why esc no longer works? Also, please post your comment as an answer so I can accept it.
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| Apr 11, 2010 at 21:35 | comment | added | Dennis Williamson |
Does Ctrl-[ work? What do you get if you press Ctrl-v then escape? It should show as ^[.
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| Apr 11, 2010 at 21:33 | comment | added | Levi Hackwith | $TERM is set to 'xterm' | |
| Apr 11, 2010 at 21:28 | comment | added | quack quixote | what are your terminal settings? ie what exactly is the TERM environment variable set to (in the remote shell)? | |
| Apr 11, 2010 at 21:24 | history | asked | Levi Hackwith | CC BY-SA 2.5 |