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[-] MrNatewood@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago

To be fair, usually a new user's first encounter with vim is it being the default editor when trying to edit a text file. If you open a specific file with it, you won't see the intro.

[-] gkd@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

But if I type :q! it just appears in the body of the text!!

[-] flibbertigibbet@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

The one the that gets me is when I accidentally open a command window when trying to exit and I have to :q out of that first.

[-] original_ish_name@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

People who say this don't know google exists

[-] kethali@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

Google literally didn't exist when I first was thrust into vim (well, vi) a large number of years ago ;) Pretty sure I eventually gave up and closed the terminal window - dialed directly into the university's unix server. Can't remember which version of unix it was, though.

It was probably the default editor for tin, the usenet client I was using. At least pine used pico as its editor which was a bit more friendly.

[-] branchial@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

Or it's a meme about the cryptic UX and not an actual question. I mean how many non-gaming software require a tutorial as introduction.

[-] RaumEnde@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago
[-] dullbananas@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

My first vim experience was when it was opened by git and i saw the default commit message instead of this

this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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