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Terminal got hanged when editing something in vi

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I was making some changes to a remote file in vi using the terminal when I accidently pressed Ctrl+S instead of :wq.

Now everything got hanged. I tried Escape,:q! and all sorts of vi commans but nothing is responding. The Terminal Screen is stuck. I can't close the Terminal session as of now as it will lead to loss of all the changes. Please suggest what should be done

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answered 3 Years ago peafowkes · Accepted Answer

Ctrl+Q will undo Ctrl+S. These are ancient control codes to stop and resume output to a terminal. They can still be useful, for instance when you are tailf-ing a log file and something interesting scrolls by, but this era of unlimited scrollback buffers has really obsoleted them.