For a time, many people’s first encounter with vi was when it auto-opened a temporary editor to ask them to submit a commit message for the git command they just ran.
This experience skips the vi “welcome” screen, because a file is open.
As a bonus challenge, git did not inform the user what editor is in use, and the user had no particular reason to even expect an editor to appear, based on what they were just doing.
None of this was the fault of vi, really. But it was a terrible introduction.
It got better when various operating systems changed their default command line editor to nano, and git added some helpful adjustments - “if certain settings are not configured, assume a new user and show verbose welcome messages”.
The image shows the last state of a terminal emulator of person without command line or git knowledge. The person attempted to run git commit and is now blaming the result of a specific configuration on their system that launches a vi derivative on the vi derivative itself. This image is expected to convince the viewer that the vi derrivative is to blame.
POV: You open vim for the first time.
Fair, but there’s a worse experience possible.
For a time, many people’s first encounter with
viwas when it auto-opened a temporary editor to ask them to submit a commit message for the git command they just ran.This experience skips the
vi“welcome” screen, because a file is open.As a bonus challenge,
gitdid not inform the user what editor is in use, and the user had no particular reason to even expect an editor to appear, based on what they were just doing.None of this was the fault of
vi, really. But it was a terrible introduction.It got better when various operating systems changed their default command line editor to
nano, andgitadded some helpful adjustments - “if certain settings are not configured, assume a new user and show verbose welcome messages”.More like:
You cannot expect people to read, it’s unreasonable.
I mean, there are blind users.
I hope the accessibility program to read the screen can read this.
I’ve heard they can be spotty, although I’m personally sighted. That’s usually the reason people post transcripts, anyway.
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