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Stuck in a terminal with a weird prompt -- exit, quit, bye, ctrl-x, ctrl-c, Q, X -- oh for crying out loud!

Open new terminal -- killall <weird software I will never run again!>

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@starbreaker 😆 It was tclsh on an old AIX machine.

Perhaps ironically, vim is my preferred editor.

@juno I think I see where you went wrong. tclsh isn't an editor. It's a kind of shell based on tcl (tool control language) as in TCL/TK.

tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/UserCmd/tcls

tcl.tk/about/

@juno Wait. You probably knew tclsh wasn't an editor. Sorry.

@starbreaker :laughing: Yep, I did.

My takeaway from all this was to never assume 100% compatibility between modern Linux and some ancient UNIX variant.