The Great Vim Escape Plan

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The Great Vim Escape Plan

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The eternal Vim trap strikes again! Nothing quite like the cold sweat of realizing you're stuck in a text editor with seemingly no escape. The park ranger says "You cannot exit vim without proper keystrokes" - the digital equivalent of checking your hiking permit before letting you leave the wilderness.

Meanwhile, seasoned Linux users smugly flash their "permit" - the sacred sudo shutdown command. It's the programming equivalent of bringing a bulldozer to a gardening competition. Sure, it works, but at what cost? Your unsaved changes send their regards from the void.

For the uninitiated: Vim is that text editor your senior dev insists makes them 10x more productive, yet somehow they spend half their day configuring it. The classic escape sequence is :wq or :q! - but why remember that when you can just nuke your entire system?

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