Esc :q for closing if you didn’t modify anything, :!q for closing and discarding any changes you made and:wq for closing and writing the changes to the file.
If you had read the other rssponse about basically the same thing you would know that the last time when I accidentally went into vim it didn’t show it for me and infact it probably was vim-tiny. I am sorry for sounding condesending.
Ctrl-C absolutely should not exit. There’s plenty of times you want it in vim to interrupt something in the editor.
As others have said, it’s on the screen if you open vim without a file. Otherwise, it’s a tool for people that bother to learn how to use it. As someone who has been using it daily for the last 10 years, I would find it incredibly obnoxious to have a bunch of useless screen clutter telling me basic things that are easily learned.
It’s a tool with a medium-high skill floor and incredibly high skill ceiling. It rewards investment and is something that is able to accommodate one’s growth in skills rather than holding them back with limitations like typical editors do. Its built-in scripting is a big part of that and is something that really sets it apart from editors like vscode. And it’s much, much faster and lighter weight/less memory-intensive than other editors.
Why wouldn’t one use vim? It’s a great editor that works under any circumstance.
Unless you want to exit it xD
The likes are the vim users with humor, the dislikes the ones without.
Esc :q for closing if you didn’t modify anything, :!q for closing and discarding any changes you made and:wq for closing and writing the changes to the file.
I was joking I know how to exit because of sudoedit it just feels like it should be on the main screen like nano or atleast ctrl+c should exit.
nowadays, if you ctrl+c, vim tells you how to exit
If you had read the other rssponse about basically the same thing you would know that the last time when I accidentally went into vim it didn’t show it for me and infact it probably was vim-tiny. I am sorry for sounding condesending.
Ctrl-Cabsolutely should not exit. There’s plenty of times you want it in vim to interrupt something in the editor.As others have said, it’s on the screen if you open vim without a file. Otherwise, it’s a tool for people that bother to learn how to use it. As someone who has been using it daily for the last 10 years, I would find it incredibly obnoxious to have a bunch of useless screen clutter telling me basic things that are easily learned.
Sorry, I forgot that vim has extensions.
Vim has an entire dedicated scripting language built right into the editor and accessible while editing.
Even without plugins, sometimes certain things can be too slow and you want to stop them.
If you start vim without opening a file it’s written on the screen in the beginning. It disappears as soon as you start writing something though.
I didn’t notice thanks!
Also, when you want to Quit by hitting CTRL+C, VIM will tell you to use !q instead.
I tried it just didn’t say anything for me, maybe it was an old version?
Perhaps you have vim-tiny installed by default on your distro rather than just vim?
idk it just seems complicated, with all the keybindings and i think it even has scripting inside the text editor … i never bothered to learn it.
It’s a tool with a medium-high skill floor and incredibly high skill ceiling. It rewards investment and is something that is able to accommodate one’s growth in skills rather than holding them back with limitations like typical editors do. Its built-in scripting is a big part of that and is something that really sets it apart from editors like vscode. And it’s much, much faster and lighter weight/less memory-intensive than other editors.