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		pknerd on Feb 3, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stack Overflow: Helping One Million Developers Exi... Only thise morning I was not even able to exit by using q! either. I did something good in my life or parents that some random keys hitting made me to exit it.

BozeWolf on Feb 3, 2019 [–]

Probably in the wrong (input) mode? Does ctrl-s freeze vim?

mshook on Feb 3, 2019 | [–]

Ctrl-S doesn't freeze vim, it freezes your terminal output (Ctrl-Q to revert it).

It's handy when something is dumping tons of stuff in the terminal.

Here's the explanation of where it comes from: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/137842/what-is-the-...

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