How to Exit Vim

Re:How to Exit Vim by JdeBP on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @09:38AM (#21991800)

You're only targetting old 1970s terminal users, there, though.

If you wanted to also help slightly more modern users who are used to CUA conventions from GUIs, you would have the [F1] key bring up some form of help screen, which said something like "Get out of Vim: Use :qa!" at the top.

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Re:How to Exit Vim by Kerrick on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @11:33AM (#21992905)

You're only targeting old 1990s GUI users there, though.

If you wanted to also help silghtly more modern users who are used to discoverable-UI conventions from mobile apps, you would have it so shaking your device brings up some form of chat bot, which would suggest asking it how to quit Vim.

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Re:How to Exit Vim by JdeBP on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @12:24PM (#21993563)

1980s. [F1] is CUA 1987.

And one of these ideas is not like the others.

Clippy, please tell everyone how Lio's and my if-only-VIM-did-this ideas are different to Kerrick's idea.

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