* Some user [2007.03.22 15:00]: > ---- RANT ---- > Though I don't really get the reason why every > command is preceded by colon.
Not to nitpick, but commands themselves don't really care about the colon. The colon is used to *change mode*. In normal mode, you can just type away your commands without any colon, ever. Command-line mode accepts just one command at a time, so you need to re-enter a colon for each new command to re-enter command-line mode. For multiple successive commands, you can use either Ex mode or the command window: :h Ex-mode :h cmdwin It sounds like you would like to be able to do everything from normal-mode. But then you would be lacking a lot of the expressive power of vim commands. > It should be one keypress, like maybe > semi-colon. map ; : > One quick question, please if you could answer: > what if I want to map something like a two keys > in succession to something, like gg for save, gz > for quitting and saving. How would it change? map gg :w<CR> map gz :wq<CR> -- JR
