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Comment by duggan | Hacker News Reader

I'm not sure how many man-hours were lost to fatfingering :wq as :Wq or :w as :W, but a simple alias has solved that particular bit of grief:

   cnoreabbrev Wq wq
   cnoreabbrev W w

The rest of my .vimrc mostly belongs to the guy I caught the vim addiction from, but sets some useful defaults: https://github.com/duggan/dotfiles/blob/master/.vimrc

Mapping ; to : and vise versa is a more elegant solution in my opinion (no need to press shift).

ZZ

Using :x kinda solves the :Wq issue

By the way :X is encrypt. Now guess how I know that... :)

I DID NOT know that and I withdraw my advice above :)

Also, :wq always writes; :x only writes when the buffer is modified (like :up | q).