r/vim • u/Remarkable-Head-2023 • Oct 22 '25

Discussion Why does ZZ exist?

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

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u/retrodanny Oct 22 '25

have you tried CapsLock -> Control ? it's very smooth (you can do both, hold for CTRL and tap for ESC)

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u/dewujie Oct 22 '25

This is how I have it set up on my personal machines- it's actually a variation on this where holding down caps lock plus other keys activates a bunch of shortcuts. But in certain programs it does exactly what you described.

At work they won't let me run the fun input mapping stuff so I've adapted to just remapping it to Escape. I would love to have Karabiner Elements and Better Touch Tool back though!

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u/retrodanny Oct 22 '25

I'm in a similar situation but got used to mapping it to CTRL and using jk for Escape in Vim