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Add in the bonus confusion that you may not have even been trying to run vim, and in fact may not know what it is (hey, everyone's a beginner some time), but ha
by ashark 9y ago
Add in the bonus confusion that you may not have even been trying to run vim, and in fact may not know what it is (hey, everyone's a beginner some time), but have landed there due to a default $EDITOR value.
[EDIT] also, a typical mid-level computer user's tendency to slap "ESC" when panicked. Ha!
- fishywang 9y agoWhich OS/Linux distribution set default $EDITOR to vim? Personally I've never seen one, and I don't think vim is a sane default value for $EDITOR.
- recursive 9y agoDon't know about $EDITOR, but if you issue a git commit in Windows, and forget to specify -m, then you end up in vim.
- dom0 9y agoI dunno if it's actually vim or some variation on it, but it is the default on, for example, Arch Linux, although I believe most other distros dropped me into it as well (e.g. git commit / rebase -i). If there is such a thing as user hostile in the world of CLI tools, then dropping the user unannounced into vi with some open buffer most definitely counts as user hostile.
- 0xFFFE 9y agoIn Jessie, visudo lands you in nano, unless you explicitly set the $EDITOR.
- JdeBP 9y agoWhat are your thoughts on $VISUAL?
- bbcbasic 9y ago> you may not have even been trying to run vi git rebase -i For example