top | item 3368995

100 vim commands every programmer should know

7 points| touchcream | 14 years ago |catswhocode.com | reply

3 comments

order
[+] switz|14 years ago|reply
Now, I'm hardly a vim expert, but isn't :w! force write? I believe :q! is exit without saving.
[+] akirk|14 years ago|reply
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.

[+] xer0|14 years ago|reply
:w! is the command you execute to confirm that you don't have write privileges on the file you're editing.