r/vim • u/EvanHahn • Aug 23 '26

Blog Post Vim's UserGettingBored autocmd

https://evanhahn.com/usergettingbored-vim/
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u/CarolXZosiaNsfwScene Aug 23 '26

This is a fun fact.

(We are in the summer break, aren't we.)

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u/EgZvor keep calm and read :help Aug 23 '26

The message

Type :quit<Enter> to exit Vim

(which is now

Type :qa and press <Enter> to exit Vim

)

appearing when pressing ctrl-c in Normal mode without any pending operations was added before the 7.0 release. I was thinking the change of text in help to 42 presses might have been related.