Tom Morris: 2009-05-20

2009.05.20

How to quit vim's easy mode (vim -y) 2009-05-20T14:55:05Z

Simple. [Ctrl]-L gets you back into normal mode, then you can :q! or whatever as usual. Just posting it here so that Google and future generations of frustrated Vim users can find it.

I learned about vim -y today (from this thread), and it’s actually a pretty neat thing if you want to be able to basically give a Vim input to a newbie. Of course, GVim or MacVim (for Windows/Linux and Mac respectively), or indeed Cream, may be more appropriate for newbies who happen to have GUIs available. The only problem with vim -y is that if you know how to use vim non-easy mode, you suddenly find yourself in the same position as non-Vim users booting up Vim for the first time - how the hell do you quit? Just remember that Vim easy mode is basically remapped so that it’s in Insert mode almost all of the time. To get into Normal mode, you have to hit [Ctrl]-L.

Perhaps I should file a bug: the welcome screen for Vim says to type :q[Enter] to quit, when in fact, you need to type [Ctrl]-L then :q[Enter] to quit when in easy mode.

Comments

blog comments powered by Disqus

Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org

Currently in: Kent, England

Usually in: East Sussex, England

I am a vegetarian, an atheist, like to code in Ruby and Scala (and Java, but let’s not talk about that), and noodle about with microformats and the Semantic Web.

I have an MA in philosophy from Heythrop College, University of London. My philosophical interests are in analytic metaphysics, ontology, modality, the work of Armstrong, Lewis, Kripke, Russell and Plato. I have a strange, unfulfilled interest in Gadamer’s hermeneutics. I’ve been influenced by Gadamer, by Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Rawls and Nozick.

Musically, I like jazz fusion, soul and P-Funk. My musical nirvana would be a mixture of Beethoven, Miles Davis and George Clinton topped with a side-serving of Erykah, Jill and Angie.

I also write for the Citizendium, an online encyclopedia project. If you know about stuff, you should join in. I occasionally produce audio recordings for The Pod Delusion.

Elsewhere:

Subscribe:

RDF

« May 2009 »
Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
	1	2
3	4	5	6	7	8	9
10	11	12	13	14	15	16
17	18	19	20	21	22	23
24	25	26	27	28	29	30
31

View in month context

On this day in: 2004 2006 2007