I agree about there being no good reason for Vim being so difficult to terminate.
I've introduced a few people to Vim and I have to start out with an apology for how annoying it is to close. If the user hammers the Esc key, it should at least flash up with a hint of how to quit.
It does this if you press ctrl-c, so it's not as if it can't be done.
That's a great idea. I can take it even a bit further though. The defaults matter. Maybe show a persistent thing at the bottom on how to exit and maybe even throw in what to do if you pressed Ctrl + s and now vim is "not responding". But this involves changing the defaults so it will likely never happen, same way as we will probably never see curl automatically enter a new line at the end of a response.
Personally I wouldn't want that cluttering my Vim sessions, but it would make sense for some sort of 'introductory mode' of Vim.
(gVim Easy seems to just be gVim restricted to insert mode. Not sure I see the sense in that - isn't that just Notepad++ but worse?)
If I could change one thing about curl, it would be for -L to be the default behaviour, so that it would just do the right thing regarding redirects. Instead, wget does the right thing by default, but curl always needs the flag.
I've introduced a few people to Vim and I have to start out with an apology for how annoying it is to close. If the user hammers the Esc key, it should at least flash up with a hint of how to quit.
It does this if you press ctrl-c, so it's not as if it can't be done.