How to exit the insert screen in mac terminal

Question

Merge branch 'develop' into peakfront

# Please enter a commit message to explain why this merge is necessary,
# especially if it merges an updated upstream into a topic branch.
#
# Lines starting with '#' will be ignored, and an empty message aborts
# the commit.

"To get updated code in my branch"


-- INSERT --

I have typed this, but I cant find a way to save this and exit, so that I could work on terminal. What command am I to use here?

Answer 1

Press esc, then colon (:) and then enter on keyboard wq to save and exit.

If you wish to just quit, without saving, write q without w

Answer 2

Steps:

1. Press ESC
2. Write :w
3. Write :q

Your text has been saved :)