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by splawn 3312 days ago
If you hit ctrl-c then you are no longer in insert mode (ctrl-c acts like esc for some reason), so no, it won't add anything to the buffer and ":q" will get you out.

I don't blame people for being confused though.. I remember getting stuck in vim all the time back in the day because of a default $EDITOR value.