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On 17/08/11 02:45, Fons Adriaensen wrote:

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> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 09:57:51PM +0200, Emanuel Rumpf wrote:

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>> 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  you will not see the

message, you will see your file.
>> Do you notice, how much this changes the user experience ?? Almost

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>> effortlessly !

indeed. And:
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> 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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