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Ev Dolzhenko
Ev Dolzhenko

Reputation: 6232

How do you quit the Vi editor with single keypress?

Because honestly

:wq!

is just too much to type.

Please note that the question is about original Vi (say Vi which comes with FreeBSD) not Vim.

Upvotes: 9

Views: 7345

Answers (7)

user50264
user50264

Reputation: 545

Does :x work on Vi? Although for your case I guess it might be :x!

Upvotes: 1

Lytic
Lytic

Reputation: 806

What's wrong with the tried and true?

:x

It's not one key press, but it's much less than :wq! which is what your question appears to truly seek.

Or is this a ViM only feature? My apologies if so.

Upvotes: 0

Nathan Fellman
Nathan Fellman

Reputation: 127428

If you're using gvim you can close it with ALT+F4. Two keys, but one keypress.

If you're using vi in its own xterm, ALT+F4 should close the xterm, killing vi as well.

Upvotes: 0

Dan McNevin
Dan McNevin

Reputation: 22336

This seems to work on solaris' old version of vi:

Version SVR4.0, Solaris 2.5.0

$ vi -c "map g ZZ" test

edit: Also, this seems to work:

$ vi -c 'map g :q!^M' test

Where ^M is actually, ^V (ctl-v) then ^M (ctl-m)

Upvotes: 2

user34005
user34005

Reputation: 461

Map your favourite key to the :wq! command.

e.g. put this in your .vimrc:

map <F8> :wq!<CR>

Et voilá.

Edit: Sorry, vim only, missed that.

Upvotes: 2

paxdiablo
paxdiablo

Reputation: 881123

Hold down the shift key and bang on Z twice.

ZZ is (mostly) equivalent to :wq!.

If you really want a single-keystroke solution, FreeBSD comes with the source so, in a pinch, you could modify that and re-compile. It's a bit of an overkill but it'll solve your problem.

Upvotes: 20

Daniel Nadasi
Daniel Nadasi

Reputation: 872

What about "ZZ"? It has slightly different semantics to ":wq!", but is also slightly shorter.

Upvotes: 3

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