I use quake style terminals, and often start writing a file and completely forget about it and turn off the computer, and only remember what i left behind when i find the random recovery files around, so :w a lot is quite useful for me.

[–] dukatos@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

[–] noeontheend 2 points 1 year ago

My biggest (mostly) irrational internet pet peeve is the proliferation of people suggesting ":wq" when ":x" is strictly better.

[–] Commiunism@lemmy.wtf 3 points 1 year ago

:w before ZZ just to make sure

[–] SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there any reason to use :w other than it being the default? I have mine mapped to CTRL-S and it makes sure to keep me in insert mode if I was in insert mode. Feels way faster and easier to spam than the 4 key presses it takes to execute “:w”.

[–] crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

I'm just used to it and I'm keeping ny time in instert mode at minimum.

[–] pkill@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

not mapping semicolon to colon

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