Not so fast, if you can do `:` (i.e. enter command-line mode) then you can do plain `:q!` - no Esc or Ctrl needed. How I understood the original problem is tha

Not so fast, if you can do `:` (i.e. enter command-line mode) then you can do plain `:q!` - no Esc or Ctrl needed. How I understood the original problem is that you're in vim, you started editing text (insert mode) and now want to exit; but there is no Esc, so even exiting insert mode is a challenge. And now you added the constraint of missing Ctrl too, so no Ctrl-[ or Ctrl-C. If you type `:.! kill -9 $(pgrep -u $(whoami) vim)` then you just entered that as text into your document. One answer could be to use the trackball, launch a new terminal window and kill the process from there.