Hmmm... now I see it: I have to turn off HTML without which vim.org
rejects it anyway. Okay, well next time I'll repent (maxima mea culpa).

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: :wq vs ZZ
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Tue, February 13, 2007 4:04 pm
> To: Gene Kwiecinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Theerasak Photha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Vim ML <[email protected]>
> 
>  To boot, ZZ isn't Vim. I started using vi in 1983 and it was already
> there. In fact, I have never used :wq    (Sorry guys, my web-based
> editor, which I must use at work becauseof IT paranoia about SMTP, simply
> will not let me reply at the end rather than beginning of the thread.)
>  
> 
>  -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: :wq vs ZZ
> From: "Gene Kwiecinski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, February 13, 2007 2:57 pm
>  To: "Theerasak Photha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Vim ML" <[email protected]>
> 
> >I imagine there is a rationale for 'ZZ', but it's not readily
>  >apparent. (Something to do with C-z in DOS, or the end of the
> >alphabet?)
> 
>  'z' is already used, and the <shift> and <z> keys are adjacent on
>  Murrrcan keyboards, so you can easily just quit out of the editor in
> almost a single hand-action.
> 
> I never liked ":wq", because you gotta do
> 
> depress <shift>
> <:>
> release <shift>
> <w>
> <q>
> <enter>
> 
> instead of the nice, simple, easy bang-bang of
> 
> depress <shift>
> <Z><Z>
> 
>  and you're out.  Releasing the <shift> key doesn't even count.  :D
> 
>  Even ':' requires either 2 hands, or a weirdly-contorted 1-handed op. 

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