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vimguy
vimguy

Reputation: 4079

How to save as a new file and keep working on the original one in Vim?

Whenever I use the :sav command, it saves the file with a new name and opens the new file open in Vim.

Is it possible to save the file with a new name but keep the original one open for editing?

Upvotes: 407

Views: 288351

Answers (4)

SergioAraujo
SergioAraujo

Reputation: 11790

After save new file press

Ctrl-6

This is shortcut to alternate file

Upvotes: 30

tivn
tivn

Reputation: 1923

The following command will create a copy in a new window. So you can continue see both original file and the new file.

:w {newfilename} | sp #

Upvotes: 7

Jianwen W.
Jianwen W.

Reputation: 3969

Thanks for the answers. Now I know that there are two ways of "SAVE AS" in Vim.

Assumed that I'm editing hello.txt.

  • :w world.txt will write hello.txt's content to the file world.txt while keeping hello.txt as the opened buffer in vim.
  • :sav world.txt will first write hello.txt's content to the file world.txt, then close buffer hello.txt, finally open world.txt as the current buffer.

Upvotes: 301

wilhelmtell
wilhelmtell

Reputation: 58667

Use the :w command with a filename:

:w other_filename

Upvotes: 587

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