Vim: Map :W to :w

[elentok]

Hi,

First, thanks for the great work you're doing :+1:

I was wondering if there's a way to define the :W command and map it to :w?

As I often don't lift my finger of the Shift key fast enough more than 50% of the time I write :W which fails silently and I don't notice I haven't saved.

In vim I use the following to set this up:

command! W :w

Is there a way to do it with vscode-vim?

Thanks,
David.

[jpoon]

This should be what you are looking for https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim#key-remapping

[wakeless]

It really isn't clear in this documentation that this is actually there. These mappings are directly in Normal mode, but this issue is when you specifically type :W (note the colon)

[jpoon]

Have you tried creating a new vim.normalModeKeyBindings mapping before W to after :w?

[wakeless]

Yes:

[evans]

@jpoon I agree with @wakeless. There isn't a clear way to remap : W to :w.

My first thought, doesn't work:

"vim.normalModeKeyBindingsNonRecursive": [
    {
      "before": [":", "W"],
      "commands": [":w"]
    },
]

A really common occurrence is to fat finger :W rather than :w. Coming from native vim it's super annoying, so I'd be happy to jump into the code if there isn't currently a supported way to do command mode remapping

[bsaf]

Not a direct solution, but I prefer remapping : to ; in Vim – this means I am never pressing shift during save so never accidentally type :W.

"vim.normalModeKeyBindings": [
  {
     "before": [";"],
     "after": [":"]
   }
]

[xahon]

@bsaf This is not working at all

[mxlian]

Same here. Anyone found a solution yet?

[marcinbiegun]

Another solution would be to create another mapping pointing to the same command, e.g.:

"vim.normalModeKeyBindingsNonRecursive": [
  {
    "before": [":","W"],
    "commands": [
      "workbench.action.files.save"
    ]
  }
]

Unfortunately this doesn't work.

[hristodd]

Anyone has a solution? It's very annoying :)

[marcinbiegun]

@hristodd I've started using <leader> w to save files.

    "vim.leader": "<space>",
    "vim.normalModeKeyBindingsNonRecursive": [
        {
            "before": ["<leader>","w"],
            "commands": [
              "workbench.action.files.save"
            ]
        },
        {
            "before": ["<leader>","q"],
            "commands": [
              "workbench.action.closeActiveEditor"
            ]
        }
    ]

[tommulkins]

Maybe this isn't a bug per se but I'm trying to add the command :e to vim.normalModeKeyBindingsNonRecursive and change its behavior from exiting to saving just like :w does.

Exiting in vs code just doesn't work and I often mistype "w" with "e"

I've tried numerous ways to handle this but haven't found a solution yet. Has anyone else tried mapping these keys like this to affect a "save action"?

[grahamsinger]

I was struggling with this too and was able to resolve by adding the following

 "vim.commandLineModeKeyBindings": [
        {
            "before": ["W"],
            "after": ["w"]
        },
    ]

One drawback to note is that it seems like any W typed in vim's command line will be changed to a w e.g. /WORD -> /wORD but since I use "vim.incsearch": true this doesn't seem to present a problem for me.

I'm using Version: 1.45.1