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Comment by Jtsummers | Hacker News Reader

What would you do to shorten exiting vim?

  <esc> :wq

Is the longest it's ever been for me and

:q

Is the norm if I'm in visual mode and haven't edited the buffer.

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Space is my leader key, save is mapped to <leader>w, exit is mapped to <leader>q, and <esc> is mapped to jk. So nominally exiting from insert mode in an unsaved buffer (jk<space>w<space>q) is the same number of key presses as <esc><shift>;wq<return>, but in practice, in my opinion, jk is superior to <esc>, <space>w is superior to <shift>;w<return>, <space>q is superior to <shift>;q<return>, and <space>w<space>q is superior to <shift>;wq<return>.

I think most people don't know that instead of :wq or :q! they can just ZZ and ZQ

or just :x

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