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Vim's 'w' is behaving like 'W' (stackoverflow.com)stack

11 points by Chris in stackoverflow.com · 7y ago · stack

I use Vim. On every machine I have ever used it on, 'w' respects punctuation. If I press 'w', I will advance to the end of a word. In the case of a period delimited word, I will move to the next period. However, in a particular installation of Vim, 'w' is interpreted as 'W' and…
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The :wq! command in Vim (stackoverflow.com)stack

9 points by Zargles in stackoverflow.com · 8y ago · stack

Recently, I read here about the :wq! command in Vim. I don't understand how it can force-write a file without write permissions. This way, theoretically, one would be able to edit root files without permission. Shouldn't it be disallowed? Or does it write into a new file? I saw…
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How do I exit Vim? (stackoverflow.com)stack

5 points by jclancy in stackoverflow.com · 14y ago · stack

I am stuck and cannot escape. It says: type :quit<Enter> to quit VIM But when I type that it simply appears in the object body.
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Is there a way in Vim to make :W to do the same thing as :w? (stackoverflow.com)stack

3 points by dwcanillas in stackoverflow.com · 14y ago · stack

Is there a way in Vim to make :W to do the same thing as :w? The same goes for :q and :Q. I almost always don't let up on Shift quick enough and, seeing that :Q and :W aren't used anyway, I thought it would be nice to just have them do the same as their lowercase counterparts.
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In Vim, I'd like to go back a word. The opposite of `w` (stackoverflow.com)stack

2 points by joslinm in stackoverflow.com · 14y ago · stack

When you're using Vim, you can move forward word by word with w . How do I go backwards?
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