Modern telemetry is a plague on power users. Imagine if Vim made product decisio...

jsty · on March 15, 2021

Every new Vim instance would show instructions on how to :q and a million StackOverflow posts would become redundant

renewiltord · on March 15, 2021

Neovim startup page looks like this now:

    NVIM v0.4.3

    Nvim is open source and freely distributable
    https://neovim.io/#chat

    type  :help nvim<Enter>       if you are new!
    type  :checkhealth<Enter>     to optimize Nvim
    type  :q<Enter>               to exit
    type  :help<Enter>            for help

    Become a registered Vim user!
    type  :help register<Enter>   for information

I imagine vim is similar

deathanatos · on March 16, 2021

It is.

You can also hit ^C, and it will prompt you with instructions.

banana_maker · on March 15, 2021

Vim (at least v8.1.1401) already does that.

type :q<Enter> to exit

type :help<Enter> or <F1> for on-line help

type :help version8<Enter> for version info

As the sibling comment noted, neovim also has something similar.