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What does capital W do in VIM?

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Mar 15, 202612010 views

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in VIM sometimes when saving, I accidentally hit capital W instead of its lowercase brother. I am prompted for my system password, so I assume it is running a sudo command of some sort, but do you know what? Thank you!

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As others have said, isn't defined in vanilla vim (7.0 here), so it sounds like some plugin you've installed has added it. will tell you what it does.

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What does capital W do in VIM?

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