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> About 12 years ago, I've been someone who did a hardware-reset,

> in order to quit vi (text-editor).

> That tool didn't give a hint how to use, nor how to quit it.

> Changing that would have been simple and had had no influence on

> functionality.

>

> I think this applies to many applications:

> You can do 2/ but still support a new user getting there,

> without too much hassle.

are you sure? did you write some program?

vi is weird, but once you /know/ it, it's

easy to use. My very first time with it was

going to be like yours but:

1 - I was a computer science student so I

had, I don't know how to call that, the

correct "state of mind" (or maybe I was young

and full of arrogance and that won't be that

little piece of stuff that's gonna impress me)

2 - a guy near me told me about "ESC :q" and

saved my life.
You say it's easy to make vi "user friendly",

can you elaborate?
I am just curious, don't be offended. I wrote

several programs over the last 15 years or so,

many involve some user interaction, some are

in the audio world (a simple daw, a simple

notation program), and I try to think on the

best approach to:

1 - make the program useful

2 - write it in such a way that it's easy to change

things if the design is bad/unusable/not well thought.

And, based on their popularity, I miserably fail

in 1 and when I need to change things in there I

very often fail at 2 (but that's something no one

but me can fix).
So let's take this vi (which is one of the most usable

program out there, I use it all day long and I enjoy it)

and how would you make it "easier"?
And really, I insist, I don't mean to offend you.

I am sincerely curious, to learn and improve my skills.
Regards,

Cédric.
(by the way, since vi comes after ed, as some kind of

improvement of the beast, by analogy I guess a better vi would

nowadays be called "eclipse" or something equivalent...)

(and that will be it for OT-ness, sorry)

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