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How can I deltect if there is a file modification in VIM upon exiting (:q)?
If there is a file modification Vim echos

E37: No write since last change (add ! to override)

I want to override this message with a custom message and an action similar to

File modified: Do you wish to save the file? (y)Yes (n)No (c)Cancel

I have modified Vim's behavior to save file on Ctrl-s and quit on Ctrl-w

Now I am looking for a solution if the file is already modified and user is quitting it with Ctrl-w I want Vim to prompt to save.

Here is the content of my .vimrc file:

map <C-S> :w<CR>
imap <C-S> <Esc>:w<CR>i

map <C-w> :q<CR>
imap <C-w> <Esc>:q<CR>

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You could use :confirm quit, e.g.

map <C-w> :confirm quit<CR>

By the way: C-w is a bad choice for a shortcut, because it is used as the start of other shortcuts, e.g. C-w v for splitting vertically. That's why you experience a short delay before the dialog pops open: after you press C-w, vim waits a short time for other keypresses, before it decides that you really just wanted to press C-w.

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Vim customized with emacs commands (insert mode only)

I am responding to this question four years later because the answer provided is a partial solution that does not completely address the original question.

I have the exact same desire as olibre, and wanted to come up with a complete solution. I come at it from a different perspective -- I'm used to Emacs line editing in bash -- but the issue is the same. I want to carry that over into Vim insert mode (only).

The following addresses all of the keybinding requests in the original question posed by olibre, plus few extras:

" Mimic Emacs Line Editing in Insert Mode Only
inoremap <C-A> <Home>
inoremap <C-B> <Left>
inoremap <C-E> <End>
inoremap <C-F> <Right>
" â is <Alt-B>
inoremap â <C-Left>
" æ is <Alt-F>
inoremap æ <C-Right>
inoremap <C-K> <Esc>lDa
inoremap <C-U> <Esc>d0xi
inoremap <C-Y> <Esc>Pa
inoremap <C-X><C-S> <Esc>:w<CR>a

The only bindings I cannot seem to get to work at this point are <Alt-B> and <Alt-F>, which would skip entire words. Whenever I bind <Esc>, <Alt>, or <Meta> combinations, gVim (v7.4 on Windows) outputs accented characters. Please feel free to edit this answer if you have a solution to this issue. I have gotten Alt combinations to work based on another post's suggestion to just use the special characters. I have inserted them above.

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-- (edit is not by original answer poster) --

I used the following under Neovim and Windows 10. You might need to change the "A" into "M" on other OSs as "alt" might be "meta" elsewhere. I haven't played with it enough.

inoremap <A-x> <Esc>:
inoremap <A-f> <Esc>lwi
inoremap <A-b> <Esc>bi
inoremap <A-S-f> <Esc>lWi
inoremap <A-S-b> <Esc>Bi

Vim – Save with CTRL-s

See this wikia.com article for the exact thing you're tyring to do: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Map_Ctrl-S_to_save_current_or_new_files

In a nutshell you need to do the following.

1. Add this to ~/.vimrc

" If the current buffer has never been saved, it will have no name,
" call the file browser to save it, otherwise just save it.
nnoremap <silent> <C-S> :if expand("%") == ""<CR>browse confirm w<CR>else<CR>confirm w<CR>endif<CR>

2. Disable terminal's interpretation of Ctrl+S

# bash
# No ttyctl, so we need to save and then restore terminal settings
vim()
{
    local ret STTYOPTS="$(stty -g)"
    stty -ixon
    command vim "$@"
    ret=$?
    stty "$STTYOPTS"
    return "$ret"
}

# zsh
vim() STTY=-ixon command vim "$@"

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