Vim prank: alias vim='vim -y'

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Vim prank: alias vim='vim -y'
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Did you know that Vim has an Easy mode? It's the hardest mode for those already familiar with Vim 🙃

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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...."

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.

The kakoune editor cimes with clippy by default. It's not exactly a Vim version though, but close enough.

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.

"prank" a vim user. You mean make it normal?

still, cool nonetheless

For a vim user it's going to cause panic.

Copy and paste suddenly become illogical keybindings like ctrl+c and ctrl+v

For closing the program you have to press a very weird X instead of the much more natural :wq

And so on

I would be so confused and so very angry at the end. I had a hard enough time working inside vim-tiny.