I keep writing to `;` files by accident in Vim. Solution?

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I find my directories littered with files named ; (semicolon) because I keep pressing :w; by accident. What's the easiest way to prevent this?

@romainl : who never makes this kind of mistake, when often working on C-style files? — yolenoyer, Feb 24 '16 at 19:45
@romainl : It seems that vim's abbreviations were partly but explicitly created for people who do not always "pay attention" : please look at the example in `:h :abbreviate-verbose` — yolenoyer, Feb 24 '16 at 20:13

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 24 '16 at 19:43

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You can use the following:

:cabbr w; w

This will correct occurences of "w;" with "w" inside the command line.

See :h abbreviations for details.

answered Feb 24 '16 at 19:43

yolenoyer

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Note: this will expand when searching as well. See [vim change :x function to delete buffer instead of save & quit](http://stackoverflow.com/q/7513380/438329) – Peter Rincker Feb 24 '16 at 22:10

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