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Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by theandrewbailey on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @02:11PM (#14403656)
If I expect Ctrl+C to quit immediately, and it doesn't quit immediately, that is not functionality that works.
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Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by adambyrtek on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @03:18PM (#14404299)
You might expect it to quit immediately, but most Vim users don't (for example I have a habit of using Ctrl-C to exit insert mode). When you travel to a foreign country you shouldn't expect everybody to speak your language.
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Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by manyxcxi on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @02:42PM (#14403962)
What if you're normally a Windows user and you pressed CTRL+C trying to copy something out of the terminal? You haven't written to disk in a while, and then poof.

Muscle memory can be a real pain some times.

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