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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I use Vim daily, and i have absolutely no clue what that command would do, what would it do? Delete the document, save and quit?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

exactly.

gg -> go to top of document

d -> delete (actually, it's cut, but it destroys the mnemonic)

G -> here is a modifier to "d" and tells it do "delete until end of document"

w -> write current state of buffer to disk

q -> exit program

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Actually not, binds and commands aren't the same. ggdG only works as a series of inputs, while wq only works as a command (with the colon).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. The colon needs to be just before the w, not at the front of the sequence...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And while you're at it, throw an ESC in there at the beginning, will ya?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

If you want to cover every case (mode), indeed. 😊

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

yeah, I screwed it up

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

gg

Huh.. I always just used :1