5 ms·
First time I used vim more than a decade ago, I got stuck too. Kill vim from other console and then googled it for future reference.
by phakding 8y ago
First time I used vim more than a decade ago, I got stuck too. Kill vim from other console and then googled it for future reference.
- sureaboutthis 8y agoA professional would use the man page.
- codetrotter 8y ago> A professional would use the man page. A professional would verify that the man page contains the information that they snarkily told others to look for there before they told them to read the man pages. In this case it doesn’t. The closest you get to that sort of information from the vim man page is: > Type ":help" in Vim to get started. Type ":help subject" to get help on a specific subject. For example: ":help ZZ" to get help for the "ZZ" command. Use <Tab> and CTRL-D to complete subjects (":help cmdline-completion"). Tags are present to jump from one place to another (sort of hypertext links, see ":help"). All documentation files can be viewed in this way, for example ":help syntax.txt". So you need to find this portion of the man page, which is quite far down in the Vim man page, and you need to realize that it means you should type :help quit or :help exit. The information you get from those two are different btw because quit and exit mean two different things. That is quite much to expect from someone if they’ve confused their way into vim without being familiar with vim. On top of that, when you use :help quit or :help exit, the first time you use the command to quit or exit it will close the help text but you’ll still be in vim so you need to do it again.
- sureaboutthis 8y agoSo the information IS there but, in any case, a professional would not continue to stumble and fumble and give up on the editor as so many amateurs do.
- detaro 8y agoA professional would be able to reconfigure the system afterwards to make sure it'll never drop them into this annoying to use editor again.
- sureaboutthis 8y agoA professional isn't annoyed by vim.
- detaro 8y ago"Professional" isn't defined by taste in text editors.
- sureaboutthis 8y ago@detaro I agree. Thus all the downvotes from the amateurs.
- afiori 8y agoLook at the bright side, the less people use vim the more elitist you can feel.
- baq 8y agoA professional should expect to end up on an AIX shell or worse once in her career where it’s vi or the highway...
- joseph8th 8y agoTrue. A "professional" would obviously know to add `export EDITOR="emacs -nw"` to their `.bashrc` Problem solved! :D
- gdy 8y agoWhat kind of professionals are you talking about? Professional typists? They are unlikely to even know what man is.
- robjan 8y agoFor your reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman