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Vim prank: alias vim='vim -y' (learnbyexample.github.io)

Did you know that Vim has an Easy mode? It's the hardest mode for those already familiar with Vim 🙃

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[-] BaalInvoker@lemmy.eco.br 51 points 7 months ago

Well... I typed "vim -y" at the terminal to see what was that and now I don't know how to leave vim.

[-] BaalInvoker@lemmy.eco.br 36 points 7 months ago

ctrl+Q did the job!

[-] cupcakezealot 13 points 7 months ago

see the cord plugged into the wall?

[-] yesman@lemmy.world 48 points 7 months ago
[-] cupcakezealot 18 points 7 months ago

alias vim='wordpad.exe'

[-] flashgnash@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago

Better yet, swap the binaries

[-] fin@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago

I’ll break the keyboard if someone would do that to me

[-] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 7 months ago
[-] learnbyexample@programming.dev 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

As per the manual, "Mappings are set up to work like most click-and-type editors" - which is best suited with GUI Vim.

While Vim doesn't make sense to use without the modes, there are plugins like https://github.com/tombh/novim-mode!

[-] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 21 points 7 months ago

According to vim --help:

-y Easy mode (like "evim", modeless)

[-] fratermus@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 7 months ago

Can't find it now, but someone once made a vi [gVim?} version with a Clippy-style helper: "I see you've pressed ESC. Would you like to...."

[-] palordrolap@kbin.social 12 points 7 months ago

That started out as a fictional implementation in the turn-of-the-century webcomic User Friendly (main site died a while back, unfortunately), and then someone decided that it would be fun to implement it for real.

The one in the comic was deliberately created to be evil. Not sure about the real-world implementation.

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Oh no. I thought it was an April fools joke. UF truly is no more.

Time to donate to the Internet Archive.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Say hello to vigor. It might require some tweaking to compile nowadays (or not, who knows).

[-] wurosh@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago

The kakoune editor cimes with clippy by default. It's not exactly a Vim version though, but close enough.

[-] mypasswordis1234@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

It makes that it's impossible to exit vim for even an experienced user, I guess

[-] neurospice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 7 months ago

There is no help that can save me for I cannot exit vim.

Vim takes yet another victim. Now I'm stuck in eternal damnation, never able to close the damn thing.

[-] Ozy@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

"prank" a vim user. You mean make it normal?

still, cool nonetheless

[-] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago

For a vim user it's going to cause panic.

Copy and paste suddenly become illogical keybindings like ctrl+c and ctrl+v

For closing the program you have to press a very weird X instead of the much more natural :wq

And so on

[-] Peffse@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

I would be so confused and so very angry at the end. I had a hard enough time working inside vim-tiny.

[-] eveninghere@beehaw.org 4 points 7 months ago

I need -n that gives me the hardest vim.

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