Did you know that Vim has an Easy mode? It’s the hardest mode for those already familiar with Vim 🙃
Well… I typed “vim -y” at the terminal to see what was that and now I don’t know how to leave vim.
ctrl+Q did the job!
see the cord plugged into the wall?
What does the flag do?
According to vim --help:
-y Easy mode (like "evim", modeless)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!
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…”
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.
Oh no. I thought it was an April fools joke. UF truly is no more.
Time to donate to the Internet Archive.
The kakoune editor cimes with clippy by default. It’s not exactly a Vim version though, but close enough.
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.
I need -n that gives me the hardest vim.