16 Aug
2011
16 Aug
'11
8:45 p.m.
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 09:57:51PM +0200, Emanuel Rumpf wrote:
What about starting with a simple message:
"Welcome to vi, a text-e cditor , Press ESC : q to quit, Press ESC :
h for help. "
I'd be surprised if vi(m) couldn't be configured to do this.
Do you notice, how much this changes the user
experience ?? Almost
effortlessly !
It just delays the problem by a few seconds. You can't use vi without
understanding its different modes etc.
And anyway, vi is not the kind of program you discover accidentally by
clicking around. It's to a sysadmin or hacker what using a screwdriver
or maybe a soldering iron is to someone meddling with electronics - part
of the essential background. You use it because you need it. There are
lots of 'cheat sheets' around, and there's 'man vi' of course.
Ciao,
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FA