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In vim, when I hit :wq it is almost always an accident that occurred when attempting to input :w. I would like to disable :wq.
The closest I found is cmap, but it has some odd behavior. If I do something like
:cmap wq w
I can no longer even input :wq; it just remaps the keystroke sequence wq to w in command mode. Now I cannot, for example, input a search/replace command on a string containing wq.
I would just like to alias the exact command :wq to :w or a no-op. Is there a way to do this?
EDIT: clarified why :cmap is not an option for me
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Now that we are in Command-line Mode , just type in quit and press Enter or return . You may also notice the :q there, which is actually the shorthand version of the :quit command. That being said, we can also quit Vim by executing :q .
In general any option that is a switch can be disabled by using the no word just before the name of the option (Do not use spaces between no and the option otherwise you will receive an error saying “E518: Unknown option: no”). Now the lines should no longer be there!
A better solution can be:
:cabbrev wq w
But I'm not sure why cmap doesn't work as excepted.
Actually I had mapped one my function keys to save files:
:map <F2> :w<CR>
:nmap <F2> <ESC>:w<CR>i
UPDATE: typo corrected in the first command.
UPDATE2: possible workaround:
:cabbrev wq<CR> w
HTH
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