On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 8:31 PM, Roy Wellington Ⅳ <[email protected]> wrote: > See this SO question for reference. > > The questioner is not asking a very well formed question here, to begin > with, which makes things hard. First, he seems to be seeing the prompt (but > misquotes it), which strongly implies he's in normal mode, where following > the prompt would work. But then we wouldn't be on SO. The remainder of the > question implies that he ends up in insert mode somehow, prior to attempting > to follow the directions in the prompt. The questioner fails to describe > exactly what gets inserted, which could also help. > > The best guess comes from a co-worker: the questioner misinterprets the : as > being not part of the directions, i.e., the prompt is interpreted as "Type: > quit<Enter> to exit Vim". > > Would perhaps coloring the keystrokes to offset them from the prompt help? > > I know where the prompt is in the source, but I don't know how to do color > at that point. Also, note that the message is internationalized, so that > makes it a bit trickier. It seems that the typesetting is not very > consistent either — some locales use less space, some use more, some use > different amounts on either side of the prompt, ES and EO even use quotes, > the word "Enter" is sometimes i18n'd, but mostly not…
The attached screenshot is what I see, with two spaces left of the colon and none right of it. It never came to my mind that to leave Vim I was to type anything other than a colon followed by the letter q then the Enter key. Best regards, Tony. -- -- 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.
