I'll first admit I'm a worshiper of the Church of Emacs. I told the trying to exit vi joke for years until someone pointed out to me that C-x C-c was equally i

I'll first admit I'm a worshiper of the Church of Emacs. I told the trying to exit vi joke for years until someone pointed out to me that C-x C-c was equally if not more obscure. It was a part of me because that was the first thing I ever learned about Emacs. Just like :wq was the first thing I ever learned about vi. Now, I think the fact that people seem to have more difficulty exiting vi is because vi is very likely the fallback for $VISUAL/$EDITOR, and hence much more likely to be trapped in by accident when unprepared.