gedit unresponsive how to save my file?

I have created a document and have not saved it yet. The gedit has become unresponsive. Is there anyway I can save or get the content of my file before killing the process?

How do I close gedit in terminal?

To close a file in gedit, select Close. Alternately, you can click the small "X" that appears on the right-side of the file's tab, or press Ctrl + W . Any one of these actions will close a file in gedit.

How do we invoke gedit editor from terminal for creating a new file?

To start gedit from the command line, type gedit and hit Enter. The gedit text editor will appear shortly. It's an uncluttered and clean application window.

gedit will create a backup file called filename~ in the same folder as the edited file. It will contain the contents before last save. If you have saved the file during edit it may contain at least a part of the contents