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I don't believe Auto Save feature in any software (lemm.ee)
submitted 7 months ago by sag@lemm.ee to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz 79 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (7 children)

:w

:w

:w

:w

:w

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esc

:w

:w

:w

:w

Average day in (neo)vim

[–] fylkenny@feddit.de 20 points 7 months ago (4 children)

You can use :wq only once

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

So choose wisely. All other editor instances must remain open forever.

[–] calzone_gigante@lemmy.eco.br 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I use quake style terminals, and often start writing a file and completely forget about it and turn off the computer, and only remember what i left behind when i find the random recovery files around, so :w a lot is quite useful for me.

[–] kender242@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Quake? The FPS? I'm confused, though I knew a little about Linux

[–] calzone_gigante@lemmy.eco.br 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes, on classic fps you could spaw a console that will drop down from the top os the screen, some terminal emulators allow you to do that.

I like it because then i have the terminal always open that i just draw from the top of the screen with a keypress

On KDE i do that with Yakuake, and on gnome with tilix

[–] Dehydrated@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

You can also use Guake on GNOME or basically on any desktop. I've also use it on Cinnamon and it's really nice.

[–] dukatos@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

:x

[–] noeontheend@beehaw.org 2 points 7 months ago

My biggest (mostly) irrational internet pet peeve is the proliferation of people suggesting ":wq" when ":x" is strictly better.

[–] Vash63@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

*per open file

[–] Commiunism@lemmy.wtf 4 points 7 months ago

:w before ZZ just to make sure

[–] SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is there any reason to use :w other than it being the default? I have mine mapped to CTRL-S and it makes sure to keep me in insert mode if I was in insert mode. Feels way faster and easier to spam than the 4 key presses it takes to execute “:w”.

[–] crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz 3 points 7 months ago

I'm just used to it and I'm keeping ny time in instert mode at minimum.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Make all changes

:wq!

Force that bitch!

[–] marswarrior@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

[–] crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz 2 points 7 months ago

Requires me to use my pibky for ctrl. I have esc remaped to caps so its faster for ke to just do :w

[–] marswarrior@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)


This will allow you to ctrl+s to save. I tried to add this in a backtick code line/block but it removes part of the syntax.

[–] crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz 2 points 7 months ago

Sorry but I'm already used to :w stoo much and a lot faster with it than ctrl+s

[–] pkill@programming.dev -2 points 7 months ago

not mapping semicolon to colon

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