100 vim commands every programmer should know(catswhocode.com)
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100 vim commands every programmer should know
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Now, I'm hardly a vim expert, but isn't :w! force write? I believe :q! is exit without saving.
Indeed. Quite amazingly someone told the author in a comment only 2 years after the post was published in 2008 of this error.
Too bad the author didn't bother to correct this fatal flaw.
Too bad the author didn't bother to correct this fatal flaw.
:w! is the command you execute to confirm that you don't have write privileges on the file you're editing.