It’s been relatively steady for the last two years. Then it began growing in the following two years, presumably as more sources linked to it online and it moved to the top of search engine results. The question was asked in August 2012, and for a few months it got very little traffic. Has the percentage of traffic it makes up changed over time? That is, have developers started learning to exit Vim on their own? That means during peak traffic hours on weekdays, there are about 80 people per hour that need help getting out of Vim. 005% of question traffic: that is, one out of every 20,000 visits to Stack Overflow questions.
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In the last year, How to exit the Vim editor has made up about. How many people have been struggling to exit Vim? In particular, we’ll try measuring who is most likely to get stuck in Vim as opposed to using it intentionally, and examining how that balance varies by country and by programming language. In honor of this milestone, we decided to take a look at the data surrounding this question. I think there are two reasons it’s easy to forget how to exit Vim: developers are often dropped into Vim from a git command or another situation where they didn’t expect to be, and they run into it infrequently enough to forget how they solved it last time.
I’ve been told by experienced Vim users that this reputation is unfair, and I’m sure they’re right (even I’ve gotten the hang of it in the last few years). Indeed, the difficulty of quitting the Vim editor is a common joke among developers. In the five years since this question was asked, there have been over a million other developers who got stuck in Vim and couldn’t escape without a bit of help. This morning, a popular Stack Overflow question hit a major milestone:
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