I've been using vim for years, and before that, I was a fan of the original
vi. I'm no in touch with my inner vimmist that after spending 8 long years
exploring the dark side (gui-based editors in Windows), when I returned to
Linux and vi, my fingers remembered how to do everything, even though I
myself no longer had a clue.

So now we get to the GVim problem. Like I said, I'm hard wired for vi. So
when I'm done with a file/buffer and want to go do something else, my
fingers express this instinct by simply typing <esc>:q<return>

When vi is running in a shell window, this is exactly what needs to be done
to return me to my normal shell terminal world. But in GVim, this behavior
has devastating side effects: it shuts down my editor. Argghhh!

What I'd like to know is whether there's a way to remap :q to something
harmless. Ideally it would dump a message at me saying "Use :quit if you
really want to shut down" - or something like that. If we can just keep my
fingers from killing my edit window out of habit, I'll be a happy camper.
-- 
Jeff Smith
Computer Science Dept.
University of Saskatchewan
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