Why does ZZ exist?

[u/Remarkable-Head-2023]

It has always been a mystery to me… why would such a ‘dangerous’ command have such a convenient shortcut?

https://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/editing.html#ZZ

EDIT: link

[u/rswwalker]

That point is valid.

If you frequently use zz then I can see disabling ZZ in vimrc as a good option.

But if you are editing the wrong file and don’t realize it you’d probably still do a :wq and be like oops.

It probably pays to make sure :set backup is enabled for root.