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.
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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...."
The kakoune editor cimes with clippy by default. It's not exactly a Vim version though, but close enough.
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.
alias vim='nano'
Iβll break the keyboard if someone would do that to me
alias vim='wordpad.exe'
Slow down there, Satan.
Better yet, swap the binaries
I need -n that gives me the hardest vim.
It makes that it's impossible to exit vim for even an experienced user, I guess
What does the flag do?
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!
According to vim --help:
-y Easy mode (like "evim", modeless)
Well... I typed "vim -y" at the terminal to see what was that and now I don't know how to leave vim.
see the cord plugged into the wall?
ctrl+Q did the job!