Re: Broken Q key... how can I leave vim without saving?

On 2020-09-02 17:28, Paolo Bolzoni wrote:
> It is not a joke, my laptop keyboard is broken and seldom the keys
> Q, 4, Ins, and few others stop working.
> Is there a way to leave vim without saving without using the Q key?

Depends on how desperately you need a "q". You can use

:help :x

which has all the commands in editing.txt that you could need, for
copying into a register and executing. If you need arbitrary letters

:help SOFOTO

gives you a nice rendering of the entire alphabet in both upper- &
lower-case so you can copy/paste from there. Or try

:r !man ascii

to get pretty much every character available. :-)

You can then copy them to build up macros or mappings so you can work
around the mangled key.

That said, I have the same problem (my Z/A/Q/1/Tab column doesn't
work on my daily-driver laptop, so I grabbed an external USB keyboard
for <$10 which pretty much makes it a non-issue for me.

-tim


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