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How can I make :q in spacemacs' evil mode, kill the buffer and delete the window, but not kill Emacs?
Coming from VI, the habit of closing with :q/:wq or ZZ/ZQ doesn't translate very well into Emacs.
I'm too new to figure out how to reprogram this.
I've come to really like Spacemacs, but need help in modifying this behavior.
The commands entered by pressing : are, similar to vim, called 'evil-ex-commands'. How to remap them is described in this issue. For your case, you probably want:
(global-set-key [remap evil-quit] 'kill-buffer-and-window)
You could add this line to your dotspacemacs/user-config.
In the issue, it is also described that the evil-ex bindings are defined in the evil-ex-commands variable. Another way to find the binding is via SPC h d x (then q, for this case).
:qquits vim. To delete a buffer and window you should use:bd(I might be wrong, but this is how I remember it). Anyway, these things work similar in Spacemacs. However, for me (and I guess for most SPACEmacs users) the preferred way to achieve this is by pressingSPC b x(or equivalentlySPC w x, but I thinkSPC b xis slightly more convenient to type).