Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim

Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by eridius on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @01:56PM (#14403477)

Cute, but no. When you enter insert mode, the "welcome screen" disappears. So if you can see the instruction telling you to type ':quit', then typing :quit will work.

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Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by dsp1234 on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @02:02PM (#14403548)

FTA, https://zgab33vy595fw5zq-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/...

It happens because people don't what they are doing. You assume that they hit ctrl+c, then immediately type :quit, but if they did, then they wouldn't be Googling it. They did something between trying to exit and quit that got them into a different mode.

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Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by eridius on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @02:18PM (#14403729)

I'm not assuming they're hitting Ctrl+C.

What I'm saying is the screen that says

                               VIM - Vi IMproved                                
                                                                                
                                version 8.0.567                                 
                            by Bram Moolenaar et al.                            
                  Vim is open source and freely distributable                   
                                                                                
                            Sponsor Vim development!                            
                 type  :help sponsor<Enter>    for information                  
                                                                                
                 type  :q<Enter>               to exit                          
                 type  :help<Enter>  or  <F1>  for on-line help                 
                 type  :help macvim<Enter>     for MacVim help

disappears as soon as you enter insert mode (or really interact with Vim at all). If you're in insert mode, you don't see this. So if you see this, typing :quit will work.

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Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by dsp1234 on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @02:32PM (#14403872)

Of course, yes. The above commenter mentioned insert mode and ctrl+c which is why I was missing that you particularly were talking about this one screen.

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Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by FreeFull on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @02:08PM (#14403632)

Perhaps they miss the : Without it, you end up recording a macro and going into insert mode.

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Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by StavrosK on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @02:10PM (#14403640)

Even if you're in insert mode, ctrl-c takes you to normal mode, then a second press will show you the hint.

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