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Now, I'm hardly a vim expert, but isn't :w! force write? I believe :q! is exit without saving.
by switz 15y ago
Now, I'm hardly a vim expert, but isn't :w! force write? I believe :q! is exit without saving.
- akirk 15y agoIndeed. Quite amazingly someone told the author in a comment only 2 years after the post was published in 2008 of this error. Too bad the author didn't bother to correct this fatal flaw.
- xer0 15y ago:w! is the command you execute to confirm that you don't have write privileges on the file you're editing.