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Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by binarycrusader on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @02:09PM (#14412133)
See all that whitespace? It's very hard to think the colon goes to the "Type" bit.

Except, logically, why would they bother to specially call out <Enter>, a whitespace character, but not the spaces as well if they intended the user to type them?

I can't think of any obvious, safe way to display text that a user should type that isn't subject to possible misinterpretation in the single line of output available.

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Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by YeGoblynQueenne on Thursday May 25, 2017 @10:45AM (#14417614)
Alright, but if we're being so scholastic it should be said that you can misinterpret any set of instructions and in this case, squinting at the command line a couple of times to make sure you got the command right is all it should take you to get it right.
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