Hah. Back in the old days, when I didn't have a second computer to look up help online, I just powered my Linux PC off if I accidentally got trapped in vim. Later on, I'd just close my PuTTy session.
Then I finally took a little bit of time to learn vim.
Haha. I survived using vim JUST knowing Esc and :ws for years~.
I was in a hurry to learn Linux and knowing vim was you know required. So I just learned the most basic in vim. I don't want to think about how much time of my life I wasted because I didn't know more about vim. Classic lesson about technical debt costing time/money over long term...
Then I finally took a little bit of time to learn vim.