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Vim is built different
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POV: You open vim for the first time.
Fair, but there's a worse experience possible.
For a time, many people's first encounter with
viwas when it auto-opened a temporary editor to ask them to submit a commit message for the git command they just ran.This experience skips the
vi"welcome" screen, because a file is open.As a bonus challenge,
gitdid not inform the user what editor is in use, and the user had no particular reason to even expect an editor to appear, based on what they were just doing.None of this was the fault of
vi, really. But it was a terrible introduction.It got better when various operating systems changed their default command line editor to
nano, andgitadded some helpful adjustments - "if certain settings are not configured, assume a new user and show verbose welcome messages".More like:
You cannot expect people to read, it's unreasonable.
I mean, there are blind users.
I hope the accessibility program to read the screen can read this.
I've heard they can be spotty, although I'm personally sighted. That's usually the reason people post transcripts, anyway.