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    [–] ignotum@lemmy.world 11 points 10 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?

    [–] filiberto_kunstlinger@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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

    [–] backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 10 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).

    [–] victorz@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

    [–] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

    [–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

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

    [–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago

    yeah, I screwed it up

    [–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

    gg

    Huh.. I always just used :1