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[-] youngGoku@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Why do so many people prefer :wq over :x?

[-] EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

Cause I don't like to think about my x

[-] rwhitisissle@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Because :wq to me means "Issue command write, followed by command quit." "Issue command x" to me means nothing in the context of vim, and ctrl + x on most systems is reserved for cutting, so it just "feels" wrong.

[-] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 10 months ago

:x was a gamechanger. And it doesn’t update the file’s modify date if you made no changes.

Sometimes I just sit back and think about all that saved time and effort so much that I have actually lost time by switching from :wq.

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 1 points 10 months ago

same reason I prefer :wq to ZZ. muscle memory.

[-] miningforrocks@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

There is a other option?

[-] superbirra@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

why not?

this post was submitted on 27 Dec 2023
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