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As a vim noob, I needed to look it up [0]. ZZ saves the current file if modified and closes it. ZQ closes it without saving. Thank you, that will save me a few seconds per year.

Why the French way? I don't get it and I am very curious :-)

[0] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/93144/exit-vim-more...

Maybe because of our (I very much include myself) infamous inability to pronounce correctly the sound "th" and making it sound like "z" instead.

Ah yes, zis is it. Fank you.

I'd have thought it's because the French keyboard layout is arranged with the "Z" in place of the "W" on a qwerty layout

(Wild guess) If you pronounce the command aloud - "Zee-zee" - it translates to "Willy" (penis word used by children) in French. Easy mnemonic.

>Zee-zee

Only if you're American. Otherwise: "zed-zed". :)

> or the French way - ZZ

HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS

People explained that it was [Shift] and [Z], which of course for you would have produced a lowercase 'z'.

lol

took me a while to get it

These would ruin the joke.

yeah, I was poking at the joke :)

create a pull request

the french way :D