Last Updated: February 25, 2016
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· mirko_novakovic

Save and Quit Shortcut

#vim

Most vi users use

:wq

to save an quit.

SHIFT-ZZ

does the same in a faster way.

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Written by Mirko Novakovic

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shawncplus

It's not exactly the same. :wq will update the last-mod time even if you haven't changed the file whereas ZZ will not.

over 1 year ago ·
mirko_novakovic

Thanks. Didn't know that.

over 1 year ago ·
novalore

Most vim users I know use :x to save and quit...

over 1 year ago ·

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