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To be fair, usually a new user’s first encounter with vim is it being the default editor when trying to edit a text file. If you open a specific file with it, you won’t see the intro.

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But if I type :q! it just appears in the body of the text!!

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The one the that gets me is when I accidentally open a command window when trying to exit and I have to :q out of that first.

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In Neovim, when you press Ctrl+C it switches to normal mode and give you this:

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People who say this don’t know google exists

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Google literally didn’t exist when I first was thrust into vim (well, vi) a large number of years ago ;) Pretty sure I eventually gave up and closed the terminal window - dialed directly into the university’s unix server. Can’t remember which version of unix it was, though.

It was probably the default editor for tin, the usenet client I was using. At least pine used pico as its editor which was a bit more friendly.

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Or it’s a meme about the cryptic UX and not an actual question. I mean how many non-gaming software require a tutorial as introduction.

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