mapping :W to :w...

[tu...@posteo.de]

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

[Salman Halim]

I actually prefer to never hit shift, so map ; to : instead. 

You could simply define a command called W to do what you want:

command! W w

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[tu...@posteo.de]

Hi Salman,

oh! :)

The first is genious and while reading the second one I had
the distinctive feeling of flat-hand-against-my-fronthead... ;)
Of course!

Thank you very much! That helps me a lot!

Cheers!
mcc

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[Tony Mechelynck]

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.

[Tony Mechelynck]

P.S. My solution to a similar problem was a little different:

map <F3> :wa|wv<CR>
map! <F3> <C-O>:wa|wv<CR>

Best regards,
Tony.

[Salman Halim]

I use <f2> in much the same way and just call :update. I also save automatically when the Vim window loses focus. 

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[rwmit...@gmail.com]

"I use <f2> in much the same way and just call :update. I also save automatically when the Vim window loses focus."

Tell me more about this.

[aro...@vex.net]

> the distinctive feeling of flat-hand-against-my-fronthead... ;)
>

Aka (Also known as:) a face-palm. :-)*

[tu...@posteo.de]

On 02/24 08:59, aro...@Vex.Net wrote:
>
> > the distinctive feeling of flat-hand-against-my-fronthead... ;)
> >
>
> Aka (Also known as:) a face-palm. :-)*

Ok :) another face-palm (this time correctly spoke...I am no native
speaker...sorry...

But...how can I ensure, that I am talking about my face and
someone else face...?

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[Lifepillar]

>>On 02/23 11:11, Salman Halim wrote:
>> I actually prefer to never hit shift, so map ; to : instead.
>>

>On 2021-02-24, tu...@posteo.de <tu...@posteo.de> wrote:
> Hi Salman,
>
> oh! :)
>
> The first is genious

Keep in mind that ; is a useful mapping in Vim. Sure, you can remap it
to :, but, in my experience, in the long term it is better not to change
Vim's default mappings (this is a matter of personal taste, of course),
except when their functionality is replicated by other mappings (as in
the next paragraph).