What does capital W do in VIM?
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00:00 What Does Capital W Do In Vim?
00:20 Accepted Answer Score 17
00:37 Answer 2 Score 6
01:17 Answer 3 Score 5
01:42 Answer 4 Score 0
01:58 Answer 5 Score 0
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ACCEPTED ANSWER
Score 17
As others have said, :W
isn't defined in vanilla vim (7.0 here), so it sounds like some plugin you've installed has added it.
:command W
will tell you what it does.
ANSWER 2
Score 6
I guess you have a common mapping for :W
in your .vimrc
to save the file as typing :w
does. Often people press too long the shift key for the colon and make the typo but actually wanting to type :w
. You've possibly got this mapping by copy and paste of snippets into your vimrc or by using a pre-configured vim setup such as spf13-vim distribution.
.vimrc:
command! W write
However, as pointed out by Sam Stokes checking the meaning of commands via
:command W
and for keycombos:
:verbose map < C-j>
is a general approach to find out what a command or keycombo does.
ANSWER 3
Score 5
You can test this line
{Cursor}It's the test
{Cursor}
: Cursor position in normal modew
: will move word which separated by " ,./?"- You will end up at
's …
- You will end up at
W
: will move word which separated by " " only- You will end up at
the …
- You will end up at
ANSWER 4
Score 0
That's strange. The normal mapping of "W" advances by a WORD, where WORD is defined by a sequence of non-blank characters.
ANSWER 5
Score 0
:W
doesn't do anything in my copy of VIM (6.4), for what that's worth. What does :help :W
tell you? (For me, it just takes me to the help for :w
, which wouldn't be, um, help-ful for you. :-) )