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by dsp1234 9y ago
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It happens because people don't what they are doing. You assume that they hit ctrl+c, then immediately type :quit, but if they did, then they wouldn't be Googling it. They did something between trying to exit and quit that got them into a different mode.
- FreeFull 9y agoPerhaps they miss the : Without it, you end up recording a macro and going into insert mode.
- eridius 9y agoI'm not assuming they're hitting Ctrl+C. What I'm saying is the screen that says VIM - Vi IMproved version 8.0.567 by Bram Moolenaar et al. Vim is open source and freely distributable Sponsor Vim development! type :help sponsor<Enter> for information type :q<Enter> to exit type :help<Enter> or <F1> for on-line help type :help macvim<Enter> for MacVim help disappears as soon as you enter insert mode (or really interact with Vim at all). If you're in insert mode, you don't see this. So if you see this, typing :quit will work.
- dsp1234 9y agoOf course, yes. The above commenter mentioned insert mode and ctrl+c which is why I was missing that you particularly were talking about this one screen.