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M-x, C-x, M-Shift-x is emacs, not vim.

It's :q<Enter> in vim.

and to suction: because vi pre-dated those paradigms

Vi predating certain paradigms explains why it doesn't follow them. But it doesn't make it any easier for a random developer who grew up in the context of those paradigms. A new developer wondering whether they should adopt some modern vi is not being unreasonable for searching out something that does follow the prevailing customs. (But they are on a fools errand, because there are exactly zero good general purpose developer environments and the question I have is which of gvim, intellij or vscodium pisses me off least today.)

Or ZZ if you want to save and exit. Saves a whole second!

Also, for those of you who think vim is old, it’s got nothin’ on Ed.

https://cs.wellesley.edu/~cs249/Resources/ed_is_the_standard...