Whenever I use the :sav command, it saves the file with a new name and opens the new file open in Vim.
Is it possible to save the file with a new name but keep the original one open for editing?
Use the :w command with a filename:
:w other_filename
Thanks for the answers. Now I know that there are two ways of "SAVE AS" in Vim.
Assumed that I'm editing hello.txt.
- :w world.txt will write hello.txt's content to the file world.txt while keeping hello.txt as the opened buffer in vim.
- :sav world.txt will first write hello.txt's content to the file world.txt, then close buffer hello.txt, finally open world.txt as the current buffer.
After save new file press
Ctrl-6
This is shortcut to alternate file
The following command will create a copy in a new window. So you can continue see both original file and the new file.
:w {newfilename} | sp #
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4980168/how-to-save-as-a-new-file-and-keep-working-on-the-original-one-in-vim