On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 5:06 AM <tu...@posteo.de> wrote: > > Hi, > > if my PC is heavily compiling things and I am editing and saving > things repeatedly if often hit :W instead of :w (that is, I am > still pressing SHIFT when hitting w. > > So I tried to map :W to :w...but it does not work for me. > > I tried > > [n]map W w > and > [n]map :W :w > > . > > Is there any way to map the accidentally hit :W > command to :w somehow? > > Cheers! > mcc
Like Salman said, you could define a user-comand W executing just w ; but the reason your nmap didn't work is that by the time you'tr typing the W, you aren't in Normal mode anymore, but in Command-line mode; OTOH you don't want any W in the middle of a command's parameters to always lowercased; so another possibility is a command-mode abbreviation, as follows: :cabbrev <expr> W ((getcmdtype() == ':' && getcmdpos() <= 4)? 'w' : 'W') Testing getcmdtype() avoids lowercasing the W in a search command, and testing getcmdpos() allows doing it only near the left margin. A user-command is more elegant however; but in order to make it behave like the w command you may want to define that :W command with the appropriate parameters, as follows (untested): :command -nargs=* -complete=file -range=% -bang -bar W <line1>,<line2>w<bang> <args> which, after all, makes it somewhat less elegant; so you may choose a command or an abbrev to suit youor taste. Best regards, Tony. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/CAJkCKXvzVvZZaZ8vEY9grSZNrO_soPwE0oGczrVy1yHF8_m0pA%40mail.gmail.com.