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How to disable a built-in command in vim

In vim, when I hit :wq it is almost always an accident that occurred when attempting to input :w. I would like to disable :wq.

The closest I found is cmap, but it has some odd behavior. If I do something like

:cmap wq w

I can no longer even input :wq; it just remaps the keystroke sequence wq to w in command mode. Now I cannot, for example, input a search/replace command on a string containing wq.

I would just like to alias the exact command :wq to :w or a no-op. Is there a way to do this?

EDIT: clarified why :cmap is not an option for me

Solution

  • It looks like the best option is to just get used to :cmap behavior. In the rare event I want to input the keyboard seqeunce wq I can just hit wq, wait a second, then hit q again. I did find this possible solution but it is too complex for my tastes.