On 17/08/11 02:45, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 09:57:51PM +0200, Emanuel Rumpf wrote:
>
>> What about starting with a simple message:
>> "Welcome to vi, a text-e cditor , Press ESC : q to quit, Press ESC :
>> h for help. "
>
> I'd be surprised if vi(m) couldn't be configured to do this.
I think you would need to try hard to un-configure that behaviour.
That has been the welcome message for a very long time, either in the GUI,
typing vim or many (most?) linux distributions typing vi.
But only before you open a file, if you type vi <filename> you will not see the
message, you will see your file.
>> Do you notice, how much this changes the user experience ?? Almost
>> effortlessly !
indeed. And:
>
> It just delays the problem by a few seconds. You can't use vi without
> understanding its different modes etc.
Simon
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