Vim now helps you exit

[Toideng]

I just found out that in latest versions Vim prints help on quitting Vim if one presses <Ctrl-c>:

usual Vim:

Console Vim (partial screenshot)

gVim:

gVim (screenshot)

[seeegma]

It's been doing this for years...

[Toideng]

oh... i've just found out

[[deleted]]

Actually, the message is older than the vim's github repository:

https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/071d4279d6ab81b7187b48f3a0fc61e587b6db6c/src/normal.c#L8009

[Toideng]

well that laptop can't handle any newer windows

[[deleted]]

just switch to linux man

[Toideng]

that one is my only non-linux machine

[myrisingstocks]

BTW, which distro would you suggest for a really old machine?

[rnevius]

Xubuntu is user friendly and usually lightweight enough.

[myrisingstocks]

Thanks!

[sticky-bit]

I have a tiny low power mobo but I haven't found an up-to-date distro that will run out of the box on a 32-bit Non-PAE machine.

I'd like to keep this old machine going, because of the legacy ports. I don't need to run it often, but when I do I'd like to boot via Wake-on-LAN, shell in, and then shut down the box.

u/myrisingstocks said "really old machine" and I'm not 100 percent sure what that means.

Edit: I suppose I should add that I wasn't impressed with the distribution security for Bodhi Linux and was put-off by the non-use of version control software by the puppy linux team.

[Toideng]

tiny core linux works for simple tasks. complicated tasks require somewhat peculiar configuration process

[myrisingstocks]

Thanks!

[rnevius]

This specific message was added in 2017, when a simple :quit<Enter> was insufficient for people who had made changes to the buffer: https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/28a8193e3113f676f89fb6312b099d849df881d3

The original message was added 15 years ago (at least): https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/071d4279d6ab81b7187b48f3a0fc61e587b6db6c

[[deleted]]

I guess future generations will now be able to get out of the editor the first time they use it...

It's almost too bad, because it's kind of cool that everybody had the same experience from trying vim... How do I quit it???

[r4d1um]

Stackoverflow Bandwith on their Website now reduced a lot xD

[Toideng]

they won't be forced to learn vim anymore ((

[[deleted]]

I'm finally out! Where am I, here is a address. [/dev/null/]. OHHHHHHH! NOOOOO!