: is your commandline, it does a lot of actions. w is write, q is quit. So you’re doing a write quit, the ! just tells it to fuck off and do the fucking command essentially.
If you open a read only file, and you need to quit just hit it with the :q! or if you haven’t made any changes, :q will work just fine.
naturally, as one would expect, you can hit all of these independently. :w just writes changes, :q will close as aforementioned.
Makes sense: Even a marriage is easier to exit than Vim
I just dipped my feet in Vim yesterday, I found it not intuitive at all. :wq! To exit a read only file? I’m too dumb to think of syntax like that!
: is your commandline, it does a lot of actions. w is write, q is quit. So you’re doing a write quit, the ! just tells it to fuck off and do the fucking command essentially.
If you open a read only file, and you need to quit just hit it with the :q! or if you haven’t made any changes, :q will work just fine.
naturally, as one would expect, you can hit all of these independently. :w just writes changes, :q will close as aforementioned.