Can I (re-) map commands in vim?

Question

I love vim and the speed it gives me. But sometimes, my fingers are too speedy and I find myself typing ":WQ" instead of ":wq" (on a German keyboard, you have to press shift to get the colon). Vim will then complain that 'W' is not an editor command.

Is there some way to make W and Q editor commands?

Answer 1

Try

 :command WQ wq
 :command Wq wq
 :command W w
 :command Q q

This way you can define your own commands. See :help command for more information.

Answer 2

And you can use

:cmap WQ wq

as well. E.g. I have

cmap h tab help

in my .vimrc which means opening help pages in a new tab.

Answer 3

I'm a former user of TextPad, and had memorized many of that program's accelerator keys. One of the first things I did in Vim was learning the map function to keep consistency (F5 search, F8 replace, etc.). I created my personal colorscheme, and borrowed alot from others' vimrc files. Viva Vim! Configurable to any degree.