Did you know that Vim has an Easy mode? It’s the hardest mode for those already familiar with Vim 🙃

  • Responsabilidade
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    542 months ago

    Well… I typed “vim -y” at the terminal to see what was that and now I don’t know how to leave vim.

    • learnbyexampleOP
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      2 months ago

      As per the manual, “Mappings are set up to work like most click-and-type editors” - which is best suited with GUI Vim.

      While Vim doesn’t make sense to use without the modes, there are plugins like https://github.com/tombh/novim-mode!

  • Frater Mus
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    182 months ago

    Can’t find it now, but someone once made a vi [gVim?} version with a Clippy-style helper: “I see you’ve pressed ESC. Would you like to…”

    • palordrolap
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      122 months ago

      That started out as a fictional implementation in the turn-of-the-century webcomic User Friendly (main site died a while back, unfortunately), and then someone decided that it would be fun to implement it for real.

      The one in the comic was deliberately created to be evil. Not sure about the real-world implementation.

      • @[email protected]
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        2 months ago

        Oh no. I thought it was an April fools joke. UF truly is no more.

        Time to donate to the Internet Archive.

    • cyruseuros
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      52 months ago

      The kakoune editor cimes with clippy by default. It’s not exactly a Vim version though, but close enough.

  • Eevoltic
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    102 months ago

    There is no help that can save me for I cannot exit vim.

    Vim takes yet another victim. Now I’m stuck in eternal damnation, never able to close the damn thing.

  • Yuumi
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    -62 months ago

    “prank” a vim user. You mean make it normal?

    still, cool nonetheless

    • @[email protected]
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      172 months ago

      For a vim user it’s going to cause panic.

      Copy and paste suddenly become illogical keybindings like ctrl+c and ctrl+v

      For closing the program you have to press a very weird X instead of the much more natural :wq

      And so on

      • @[email protected]
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        62 months ago

        I would be so confused and so very angry at the end. I had a hard enough time working inside vim-tiny.