How to abort a git rebase from inside vim during interactive editing

Question

When I do an interactive rebase, e.g.

git rebase -i HEAD~3

the rebase interactive editor (vim in my case) opens to let me edit the commits

Answer 1

Just delete all the lines that are not comments from the file. Then save it to the default supplied path and exit the editor.

As a result git will just do nothing in this rebase.

To delete all lines in vim you can use

:%d|x

Then save and quit.

delete all lines of file in Vim

How to exit the Vim editor?

VIM - multiple commands on same line