What does capital W do in VIM

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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, :W isn't defined in vanilla vim (7.0 here), so it sounds like some plugin you've installed has added it.

:command W will tell you what it does.

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Vim – Is Capslock on

You can use a script like this:

; INDICATE WHEN THE CAPS LOCK IS ON WITH A SCREEN MESSAGE
Gui, +AlwaysOnTop +ToolWindow -SysMenu -Caption
Gui, Font, caf001e s30 bold ,Verdana ;changes font color, size and font
Gui, Color, af001d;changes background color
Gui +LastFound  ; Make the GUI window the last found window for use by the line below.
WinSet, TransColor,af001d
Gui, Add, Text, ,CAPS LOCK ON
; TOGGLE THE GUI ON AND OFF
~capslock::
   if(0==GetKeyState("capslock","T")){
      Gui,  hide
   }else{
      if(guilocation>0){
         guilocation=0
         Gui, Show,x600 y800 NoActivate
      }else{
         guilocation=1
         Gui, Show,x600 y400 NoActivate
      }
   }
return

Taken from Here. Now Vim will display CAPS LOCK ON whenever your caps lock is on

Update: And that's a script for AHK (Automatic hotkey scripting language). According to this conversation it is impossible to create a behaviour your're descripting using only vim.

Vi / vim tutorial recommendations

I am working on an interactive tutorial for basic commands. You can find it at: http://www.openvim.com There is already a sandbox page that has a context sensitive menu, so that if you press '5' you can see what possibilities you have after that, e.g. 5w.

There will be new concept, a teaching box, later on, which deals with the wholesome experience of Vim; i.e. opening of files, splitting windows, etc.

Most of the basic functionality is there already. Currently I'm adding visual and visual block modes.

And hopefully I have energy to add some Vim based games.

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Vim – Is Capslock on

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