The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10

Re:The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10 by majewsky on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @06:59AM (#22168556)

I would argue that vi(m) is more user-friendly by being more upfront about its learning curve.

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Re:The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10 by CarlRJ on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @08:23AM (#22169085)

Vi(m) favors “easy to use” over “easy to learn” - which is the right tradeoff for a tool that one can use for hours a day for decades.

Though I always liked the line, “Vi is user-friendly - it’s just picky about who its friends are”.

(BTW, “ZZ” is usually the right answer to quitting/exiting - still funny to see, decades on, people teaching “:wq<return>”.)

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Re:The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10 by iudqnolq on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @05:13AM (#22179038)

Thank you. I just learned I've been exiting vim wrong for years.

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Re:The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10 by adamsea on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @07:09AM (#22168611)

I think that is different from being “user friendly”, where “user friendly” means “the UI for this application is as intuitive as we could make it do that a wide range of nontechnical users are able to comfortably use this application with a minimum of formal instruction.”

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