After pressing qq, the status line says "recording". How do I get out of this mode?

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I accidentally pressed qq, and now the status line says recording. What does that mean? How do I get out of this "recording" mode?

Pressing Esc doesn't work.

@romainl That's obvious in retrospect, but not to someone who is stuck. — 200_success, Feb 03 '15 at 21:11
This isn't strictly a "mode" in the Vim sense of the term, so I've edited out the [modes] tag. — Doorknob, Feb 04 '15 at 15:21
@200_success :help recording isn't obvious, but :help q is and leads to the same place. — Gilles 'SO- stop being evil', Feb 04 '15 at 15:23

toro2k · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-13T13:25:15.803

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q is the command to begin the recording of a macro. By pressing qq you have told Vim to record a macro and store it in the register q. To stop Vim to record the macro, and thus to make the message recording disappear, you have to stop the recording by pressing q again. See :help recording for more details.

edited Feb 13 '15 at 13:25

answered Feb 03 '15 at 19:23

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After pressing qq, the status line says "recording". How do I get out of this mode?

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