I tried looking for a solution on the forum, google and obsidian help, however could not find anything.
Switch on Vim mode
Press esc
Enter ‘:q!’ or ‘:q’ or ‘q’
Quit Vim mode
Not an editor command “:q!”
How do get around this?
Macbook Air (Big Sur 11.5.1)
Go to the editor settings and toggle Vim keybindings off.
Thankyou for the reply. I do know how to exit vim from the menu. I meant to ask, is the “:q!” not supposed to work in obsidian. And if it is supposed to work, why isn’t it working in this case.
No, “:q” or “:quit” isn’t meant to work in Obsidian.
Are you just expecting that “:q” would turn off the keybindings? Or were you expecting it to do something different, like quit Obsidian, or close a note? Can you please explain?
Also please note that in Obsidian, you are not actually running Vim or using buffers. It’s a CodeMirror javascript library that only emulates a small subset of Vim. So any commands that would act on windows. or buffers or tabs or the program itself in Vim, will likely not work in Obsidian.
Thankyou for the reply, I assumed “:q” would turn off the vim mode. I thought there’s a problem in my vault/software because of which this is not happening. Thankyou for explaining that there’s a difference between what is generally referred to as Vim and the Vim functionality in Obsidian. I just wanted to make sure that this isn’t a bug 
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