What we really mean
What we really mean
IMHO, it's a horrible hack that is just broken. It's obscure and we need to rewrite it because it has a bad structure. XCquit[ESC][ESC]C
The best way I know to quit vi is by turning off your computer
46 0 ReplyWhy would you quit vim?
33 0 ReplyTo open nano of course
10 1 ReplyBecause you meant to open ed: the standard text editor.
9 0 ReplyI wanted to open neovim of course. And my alias did not work
3 0 ReplyBecause you've finished configuring the evil package, obviously.
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you can also accomplish that by turning off city's electrical grid
11 0 ReplyTakes too long for the UPS to run down...
6 0 Replyi see you're operating at datacenter scale
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This is the way.
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I'm one of those people who think that Perl is a write-only language
-Linus torvalds34 0 Reply"I can read this Perl scrip"t should translate to "I'm lying".
32 0 ReplyESC +
:q!
ESC to enter normal mode (if you're in a different mode like insert) : (colon) to enter commands q to quit ! (or a) to use the quit command withiut keeping any changes
27 1 ReplyHe's speaking the language of the gods..
18 0 ReplyESC + (shift) ZZ is faster and also saves your changes!
4 0 Replygood to know :3
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I'm basically a god at work cause I knew this already, but never explained the pain I went through to get here.
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The first phrase spoken when opening a new project, be it yours or someone elses... "What the fuck..."
19 0 ReplyWhat fucking idiot wrote this? Looking at your own code from 6 months ago
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I can't read this perl script may also apply to something you wrote last week.
17 0 ReplyI'm absolutely guilty of self-documenting code, but mostly because I'm sick of everyone else's lying comments.
13 0 Reply"The reason I use Perl is because I wanna write scripts that no one can read and no one can understand so that I can keep my job"
12 0 ReplyIMHO it's a complex, temporary work around with a few issues.
Also vim > emacs
10 0 Replyi use nano and i will die on this hill
7 0 ReplyNano is the only one I know how to use lol (assuming we're talking about in-terminal text editors)
And i have used it exclusively for editing Minecraft and KSP server config files
Im definitely a programmer :P
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Hey, now. It is possible to write readable Perl code—it's just less interesting that way. 😜
9 0 ReplySelf documenting: my code doesn't NEED comments
8 0 ReplyLGTM
7 0 ReplyThe Perl one has got me:)
5 0 ReplySometimes I like to pack the most functionality into a single, hard to read one-liner, just for fun. In review I’ll admit “it’s a little bit abstruse”.
4 0 ReplyOf course, the correct way to quit Vi is
^Zpkill vi
.3 0 ReplyEmacs babyyyy
2 0 ReplyGood reference with lots of truth. Maybe, I should print it before having a meeting with other tech teams.
2 0 ReplyI've been seeing a lot of Perl jokes lately and as far as legacy code I haven't had to edit anything written in that in 25 or so years. For those that haven't used it, getting form variables and rudimentary things like that were like equivalent to regular expressions, everything had some obscure expression you had to look up or copy paste.
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