Comment by blacktriangle | Hacker News Reader

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Same goes for Emacs, nobody points you to the Info system, which is absolutely amazing.

Perhaps this is because both vimtutor and the Emacs tutor do refer to their respective help systems, but given the sad state of most help systems beginners are familiar with I think they can be forgiven for not taking the recomendation seriously. Its worth really emphasizing to beginners that there is a follow up to the simple vimtutor/TUTORIAL built right into the editor.

In the age of google everything, it seems like people don't even consider that built-in help could be a thing. And people just don't seem to read. vim's startup message contains:

    VIM - Vi IMproved
    
    version whatever
    by Bram Moolenaar et al.
    Vim is open source and freely distributable
    
    Become a registered Vim user!
    type :help register<Enter> for information
    
    type :q<Enter>             to exit
    type :help<Enter> or <F1>  for on-line help
    type :help version8<Enter> for version info

Things in <> are even colored so you can see them easier. Wow, it's so hard to figure out how to exit! Oh well, vim is doing fine.

how often are people opening vim with no buffers? Even if I'm creating a file, I know what name I want to give it so I'll invoke vim with that as the argument

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