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Poor wording, more so meant that when I drop into vim, vi, or emacs I have no way to (without some external knowledge) know how to open a file tree. Just a barrier to usage is all.


By external knowledge, do you mean knowing how the program you're using works?


the point of the GUI is that folks can intuit how a program works without having to be versed in how it works.


Okay. For what it's worth, vim tells you that you can type :help to get help every time you start it up. It would take a while until you got to the section about the file tree, though.




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