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Re:100 vim commands every programmer should know by switz on Monday December 19, 2011 @04:15AM (#3369052)
Now, I'm hardly a vim expert, but isn't :w! force write? I believe :q! is exit without saving.
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Re:100 vim commands every programmer should know by akirk on Monday December 19, 2011 @04:23AM (#3369070)
Indeed. Quite amazingly someone told the author in a comment only 2 years after the post was published in 2008 of this error.

Too bad the author didn't bother to correct this fatal flaw.

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Re:100 vim commands every programmer should know by xer0 on Monday December 19, 2011 @03:53PM (#3371096)
:w! is the command you execute to confirm that you don't have write privileges on the file you're editing.
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