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Same goes for Emacs, nobody points you to the Info system, which is absolutely amazing. Perhaps this is because both vimtutor and the Emacs tutor do refer to t

Same goes for Emacs, nobody points you to the Info system, which is absolutely amazing. Perhaps this is because both vimtutor and the Emacs tutor do refer to their respective help systems, but given the sad state of most help systems beginners are familiar with I think they can be forgiven for not taking the recomendation seriously. Its worth really emphasizing to beginners that there is a follow up to the simple vimtutor/TUTORIAL built right into the editor.

Jach 5y ago
In the age of google everything, it seems like people don't even consider that built-in help could be a thing. And people just don't seem to read. vim's startup message contains: VIM - Vi IMproved version whatever by Bram Moolenaar et al. Vim is open source and freely distributable Become a registered Vim user! type :help register<Enter> for information type :q<Enter> to exit type :help<Enter> or <F1> for on-line help type :help version8<Enter> for version info Things in <> are even colored so you can see them easier. Wow, it's so hard to figure out how to exit! Oh well, vim is doing fine.
- ziml77 5y ago
  how often are people opening vim with no buffers? Even if I'm creating a file, I know what name I want to give it so I'll invoke vim with that as the argument