On Mon, 25 May 2009 07:59:33 +0200, Tony Mechelynck
<[email protected]> wrote:

> On 18/05/09 22:24, Gene Kwiecinski wrote:
> >
> > Am I the only one who uses 'ZZ' to write/quit?
> > 2 adjacent keys,
> >     <shift><Z><Z></shift>
> > vs
> >     <shift><:></shift><x><return>
> > or
> >     <shift><:></shift><w><q><return>
> >
> > which to me is a *lot* simpler/easier.
> 
> Well, maybe, but:
> 
> -- :x is easier to remember: it's a variation on :q, for use when the 
> file was changed and I want to save before closing. ZZ isn't "in the 
> same family" as anything AFAICT -- except ZQ, but "that" is equivalent 
> to :q!, making ZZ ZQ a family of two, vs. :q :qa :q! :qa! :x :xa, a 
> family of (at least) six.

I'd have thought that saving and exiting is sufficiently common an
action that there's no need to have any specific way of remembering
it. I mean, seriously: when did any regular vi or vim user need a
mnemonic to save a file?

> -- On my Belgian keyboard, the colon needs no shift, whixh by your 
> argument makes :x "fewer" keystrokes than ZZ

The same, surely, unless your return key hits itself.

-- 
Matthew Winn

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