How to create an alias for a command in Vim?

Question

Vim is my preferred text editor when I program, and thus I always run into a particularly annoying issue.

Frequently, when I quickly need to save the buffer and conti

Answer 1

Maybe you would like to map one of your function keys (F1..F12) to :w ? Then put this into your .vimrc:

noremap   :w
inoremap  :w

(ctrl-o in insert mode switches temporarily to normal mode).