Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Make nano the default editor

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Hi Till,

I sent a question to Vim mailing list:

https://groups.google.com/g/vim_dev/c/931nvz1TKyg

On 6/29/20 10:47 AM, Till Maas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 06:48:56PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
>
>> Nothing in vi's default view (if launched with a file, which is what
>> happens in this case) tells you you need to press 'insert' in order to
>> actually edit anything. Nothing in vi's default view tells you you have
>> to type the entirely cryptic sequence ":wq" to save and exit (or gives
> since vim addresses this when opened without a file and it is open
> source, it seems to me to be a good idea to propose to adjust vim
> behaviour to show the help overview when opening a file as well. For
> example if there is no ~/.vimrc or some other indicator that shows the
> user does not know vim, yet.
>
> Did someone discuss improving the novice user experience with the vim
> developers, yet? What was the outcome?
>
> Thanks
> Till
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Zdenek Dohnal
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