Make :q or :wq not killl emacs in evil mode

If there is no unmodified buffer, trying to exit current buffer or window through :q or :w kills emacs, which is super annoying. This makes it very hard to work with read only buffers. I guess one alternative is to use :bd which deletes current buffer which is what I actually want to do. How do I make it do exactly as what vim does?

It may not solve everything you want (I forgot what Vim's behavior was here), but you can make yourself less likely to close Emacs accidentally by adding this to your init.el: (setq confirm-kill-emacs #'yes-or-no-p) Then you'll get prompted before Emacs is killed. It's been a lifesaver for me.

For making :wq save and close the current buffer, I've got: (evil-ex-define-cmd "wq" 'save-and-kill-this-buffer) (defun save-and-kill-this-buffer()(interactive)(save-buffer)(kill-current-buffer)) I use :q for quitting everything and :bd for the rare case where I want to close a buffer without saving but you should be able to evil-ex-define-cmd :q to kill-current-buffer if you wanted. Edit: Actually redefining :q like that would make it hard to actually quit once you actually are done with all buffers. I think that's why I left it. Could probably do a fancy check to see what buffers exist and quit if only non-interesting ones but I guess just blocking wq from killing everything was good enough for me.

I had a couple of minor issues with evil like this that were solved by switching to viper. Strange that everybody is using evil and viper is never mentioned.