Hi,
On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 06:48:56PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
Nothing in vi's default view (if launched with a file, which is
what
happens in this case) tells you you need to press 'insert' in order to
actually edit anything. Nothing in vi's default view tells you you have
to type the entirely cryptic sequence ":wq" to save and exit (or gives
since vim addresses this when opened without a file and it is open
source, it seems to me to be a good idea to propose to adjust vim
behaviour to show the help overview when opening a file as well. For
example if there is no ~/.vimrc or some other indicator that shows the
user does not know vim, yet.
Did someone discuss improving the novice user experience with the vim
developers, yet? What was the outcome?
Thanks
Till