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I'm trying to make Ctrl+Q quit vim automatically without saving. I thought this would be a very simple task but am stumped on why it's not working...

I have the two following mappings at the end of my vimrc...

nmap q :q! <Enter>
imap <C-q> <esc>:q!<CR>

but when I press control+q vim toggles visual-block mode instead of quitting. Why? How do I get those keybindings to work?

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    Why do you use q and <ENTER> for the first instead of <C-q> and <CR>?
    – Quasímodo
    Commented Oct 23, 2020 at 21:39
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    In which modes does your map fails?
    – Quasímodo
    Commented Oct 23, 2020 at 21:40
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    You might want to think about preferring nnoremap. Control-q is an alternative for visual-block, but you should still be able to override it. Note, however, that (like for C-s) you may have to disable tty pausing, which (afaik) uses those keys. (There’s a magic incantation of stty stty -ixon -ixoff)
    – D. Ben Knoble ♦
    Commented Oct 23, 2020 at 23:49
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    @alec yes. But if the mapping worked, i suppose it’s all sorted. I’ll write up an answer unless you want to
    – D. Ben Knoble ♦
    Commented Oct 24, 2020 at 2:48
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    @alec there should not be
    – D. Ben Knoble ♦
    Commented Oct 24, 2020 at 13:44

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Since OP said it helped: Prefer nnoremap unless you need recursive mappings (:*map) or insert-mode mappings (:i*map). I would write

nnoremap <C-q> :quit!<CR>

(No <esc> necessary, and I find it nice to spell things out.)

<C-q> is an alternative for visual-block, but you should still be able to override it. Note, however, that (like for <C-s>) you may have to disable tty pausing, which (afaik) uses those keys. (There’s a magic incantation of stty stty -ixon -ixoff.)

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    Also consider silent !stty -ixon to .vimrc to deactivate that pre-historic freezing feature.
    – Quasímodo
    Commented Oct 24, 2020 at 18:11
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    @Quasímodo i put in shell files, but fair enough
    – D. Ben Knoble ♦
    Commented Oct 24, 2020 at 18:24
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    Indeed, also good, only I prefer .vimrc because Vim can be invoked without a shell, e.g. xterm -e vim.
    – Quasímodo
    Commented Oct 24, 2020 at 18:25

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