Problems with entering Git commit message with Vim

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If it is VIM for Windows, you can do the following:

  • enter your message following the presented guidelines
  • press Esc to make sure you are out of the insert mode
  • then type :wqEnter or ZZ.

Note that in VIM there are often several ways to do one thing. Here there is a slight difference though. :wqEnter always writes the current file before closing it, while ZZ, :xEnter, :xiEnter, :xitEnter, :exiEnter and :exitEnter only write it if the document is modified.
All these synonyms just have different numbers of keypresses.

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