On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 5:10 PM, lostmsu <[email protected]> wrote: > A significant milestone was achieved today: Stack Overflow question "How to > exit VIM" reached 1,000,000 views. > > It looks like the time has come for a radical change: make VIM finally > behave like any other sane program and respect UNIX SIGINT signal. > > I propose the following behavior: > > if there are no unsaved changes, simply exit > if there are changes, switch to command mode, and print the same warning one > gets when doing :q >
Unix and its command line utilities have a learning curve that is far different from GUI programs. Unless someone is forced to use vi (or vim) they generally catch on to the fact it is a command interpreter that displays text, as opposed to a text editor in the usual sense. In light of Mr. Wellington's and Mr. Johnson's comments - notably, the realization that Vim is a command interpreter - I don't think it makes sense to change anything. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
