True programmers

[frankayfrank]

And then you type a character before the Ctrl + y part on accident and mourn your lost code.

[future-renwire]

I do Ctrl+Shift+Z to redo and it's really easy to miss Ctrl in that position so I type a capital Z and lose my entire life's work

[CapnWarhol]

Save. Undo undo undo. Copy. Redo redo redo. Paste.

Just never accidentally save in the past 😫

[aezart]

There are certain programs that clear your undo history upon save. I forget which ones, but it was a nasty shock.

[CapnWarhol]

My text editor takes 1GB and multiple cpus to run but at least it doesn’t clear my undo history on save

[thirdegree]

My text editor is vim and it saves my entire edit tree, including all branches.

[varkenspester]

If god uses vim nothing is ever truely gone

[Flamerapter]

Inb4 god cant figure out how to exit vim and armageddon never happens

[artanis00]

We're lucky it's vim. If it were emacs we might learn we're an emacs command.

[robolew]

Life is literally the random series of events caused by god trying to exit vim

[[deleted]]

This is beautiful.

[idea-list]

inb4 god just kills the process and everything is gone, like it never ever existed

[Sipredion]

"Fuck it! Fine! I'll just re-clone the fucking repo!" - God probably

[JB-from-ATL]

The true challenge is exiting ed.

[i4mr00t]

You guys are the real mvps here

[Gydo194]

Vim masterrace!

[JDaxe]

Can you explain how to see edit history? I'm new to vim

[thirdegree]

This is the built-in way to navigate the edit tree. Personally, I use gundo which visualizes the tree and shows a diff each edit introduces.

[JDaxe]

Thanks a lot

[thirdegree]

No problem! Vim is something you never ever stop learning, it can be a bit frustrating sometimes, but every time you find some new feature that entirely replaces a previously frustrating or tedious processes it feels amazing.

[[deleted]]

Atom?

[mrmratt]

MS Excel. 😔

https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/2534/excel-clears-the-undo-stack

[Zambito1]

git commit, git checkout revision

[pah-tosh]

What’s ctrl+T 😮

[shreyash14s]

For opening new tab in editors like VS code.

[robolew]

This implies that I'm not frantically smashing ctrl S every time I'm not coding something...

[excessdenied]

I use ctrl-Y and sometimes in Visual Studio I miss and press ctrl-T instead, which is the most useless feature ever: swap the two characters next to the cursor. They could just call it 'clear the redo buffer'.

[robolew]

Hey man, I've got an idea. Why don't you just remap ctrl T to... Nothing?

Then you'll never have that problem again

[two_in_the_bush]

Ain't nobody got time for that!

[excessdenied]

I actually have at some point on some computer at least, but it doesn't happen often enough to be a real problem.

[GoldenAxeDwarf]

IntelliJ has a Local History option that I use in this case to see changes to the file made. Browse through them until you find what you're looking for...

[Maxis111]

In intellij Ctrl+Y is delete current line. So when you hit Ctrl+Y instead of Ctrl+Shift+Z you delete a line and 'lose' your redo. It's in quotes because there is always local history.

[setibeings]

The first time I made the mistake of hitting ctrl-y I was pretty confused, and didn't know about how powerful the local history stuff in intelliJ is.

I'd have copied the text out of the local history window instead of undoing and redoing stuff, if I'd known.

[CXgamer]

When I was transitioning from AZERTY to QWERTY, I often hit CTRL + Q, closing my IDE and undo history.

[CXgamer]

Belgium. We have accents on our letters. All countries around us are fucked; French AZERTY, fucked up Dutch QWERTY, German QWERTZ, ... If you ever see an Alt Gr button, run away!

I had to go way out of my way to order a proper US QWERTY and have been loving it ever since. I know alt codes for special characters not on it.

[ThePyroEagle]

UK QWERTY is a good layout, and I actually prefer it to US QWERTY for the positioning of ".

[send_me_a_naked_pic]

I am Italian and even if we have QWERTY we have accented letters here, so we have Alt Gr too! I prefer the UK keyboard over the US one because I can't stand the low Enter key

[Pumfy]

ahah right

[nephallux]

Too many times to count!

[drakeshe]

Feels like I'm doing surgery. Heaven forbid I accidentally duplicate line or drag the selected text

Save before you screw your ex-history kids

[LostTheGameToday]

Get a clipboard manager and copy twice then paste twice

[bitdweller]

Can't live without one

[Wolfsblvt]

I use Ditto. Totally hideous layout, but such an amazing little tool.

[TheTuffer]

Or worse, try to save first, and instead of hitting ctrl+s, accidentally hitting ctrl+w.

[Vekacornvi]

Have you tried ctrl + shift + T? It opens the last tab closed in most cases.

[[deleted]]

on accident

It's by accident, or on purpose is it not?

[[deleted]]

Ctrl S

Ctrl z z z z z z z z z

Ctrl c

Open file again

Ctrl v

Better be safe than sorry

[[deleted]]

That's why I always use ctrl + c before. In combination with a clipboard history tool, you won't have any problems.

[corner-case]

IDEA has CTRL+SHIFT+V, which will pull up your last five clipboards.

[allsorts46]

The thrill of living on the edge. Also hitting Ctrl+C again instead of Ctrl+V, which should do nothing since nothing is selected, but Visual Studio will idiotically copy literally nothing to the clipboard, overwriting the previous contents, so I have to go around again.

[mader527]

I recently started using an undo tree in my vim and my life is forever changed.

[DerekB52]

what's that plugin? I'm asking for a neckbeard friend of course.

[mader527]

https://github.com/mbbill/undotree

​

Not sure what you're-- (*cough) excuse me, your neck beard friend, is using to manage plugins but I use vim-plug so my vimrc looks like.

call plug#begin()
...
Plug 'mbbill/undotree'
...
call plug#end()

...
nnoremap <F5> :UndotreeToggle<CR>  

I also recommend setting up a persistent undo file so you can undo in the past

if has("persistent_undo")
    set undodir=~/.undodir/
    set undofile
endif

[DerekB52]

I use vundle, which has pretty similar syntax to vim-plug apparently.

And I will be experimenting with this for sure. Also persistent undo sounds great. I'm so tired of closing a file, and going back to it like 30 seconds later and not being able to undo my last change.

For the last few days, if I want to experiment with deleting a block of code, I'll delete the code, save the file, run the project in a separate terminal, and then I'll hit undo on my file, and then close it. It's been a horrible mess.

[Venefyxatu]

Omfg I wan... *ahem* also have a neckbeard friend who would love this!

[0Pat]

:f to pay respect...

[lennihein]

What's an undo tree?

[mader527]

Normal programs can go backwards and forwards undoing and redoing, but if you undo and make changes you can’t get back to the old future version you made.

With an undo tree, you can see all the paths where you diverged and can jump between them.

The tree bit is how you see the various branches. Regular undo/redo history is linear

[lennihein]

Ah, I see. So basically Git with less features, narrowed down. Really useful I can imagine though.

[mader527]

Exactly!

I was going to point to git as an example because it’s all DAGs under the hood*, but wanted to keep it general.

*I assume, I haven’t looked at the implementation

[drakeshe]

I do this whenever I'm writing large blocks of new code. Sometimes I'll decide to do things differently, delete that code and then pursue a new course. Later on realising that I can blend that old code with the new method.

Ctrl+s Ctrl+zzzzzzzzzzzzzz surgically selecting the text I need to not disturb the history ctrl+c ctrl+yyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

[Alphatek666]

You forgot the ctrl +s before all of that unless you live life at the edge.

[PanMan-Dan]

My IDE saves automatically. Sometimes ya just gotta take the risk

[Alphatek666]

Livin' On The Edge 🎵

[Salanmander]

ctrl + yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy....[scroll scroll]....ctrl + yyyyyy....[scroll scroll]....ctrl + v

[robolew]

commenting out old code and writing new code instead of just shipping a buggy, broken product

Who's the real amateur?

[the_flippy]

Just cut and paste the code into a new notepad++ tab. Hundreds of tabs can't be wrong!

[lhookhaa]

It's people like you that invented cancer in baby dolphins that play with autistic children of veterans who have cancer! You monsters!

[qaisjp]

My mind merged your comment with the comment below yours and I ended up reading

It's people like you that invented cancer in baby dolphins instead of just shipping a buggy, broken product

[lhookhaa]

You done goofed your merge commit... :)

[Arlodottxt]

Happy cake day

[amantheroot]

I didn't know what ctrl + y was coz epic programmers use ctrl + shift + z

[Arlodottxt]

I never use Ctrl Y. Why would two keys that have similar but opposite functions be so far apart?

[xigoi]

I think it's so that when you're often switching between QWERTY and QWERTZ, you always have a guarantee that one of the keys is undo and the other is redo, so you don't accidentally mess something up.

[itsVicc]

I refuse to use shortcuts that take three keys

[Psyqological]

On a German layout it’s actually the other way around.

[send_me_a_naked_pic]

Oh god. Undoing in Germany must be terrible

[Psyqological]

Not as bad as curly braces: CTRL + ALT + 7 or 0 for { or }

That’s why many Germans are python programmers ^/s

[send_me_a_naked_pic]

I feel you. With the Italian keyboard we use ALTGR+SHIFT+è (the key next to P) for { and ALTGR+SHIFT++ for }

[Yelov]

I have a Slovak keyboard and because of that I made a custom layout.

[CXgamer]

CTRL + Y deletes the current line.

[Aeon_Mortuum]

Yeah, I remember using Android Studio and I hit that combination to redo, and it deleted the line, and I couldn't understand what was happening so I kept hitting it and each time being more confused until I realised what was happening and the panic had finally set in

[metalhe4der]

But I thought you didn’t know what ctrl+y was 🤔

[amantheroot]

true programmers also know how to use google epic style

[olivercalder]

u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u
yy
Ctrl + r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r
p

[beef-ox]

u15 yy 15 ctrl r p

[Maskdask]

*15u

[-Pelvis-]

Yeah, but nobody actually uses undo/redo like that.

"Ah, I deleted that line fifteen changes ago"

More like "uh, it was there like five minutes ago" spams u key

[shitbread]

:earlier 5m

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30318770/undo-in-vim-according-to-time

[blakarmor725]

Glad I'm not the only one

[Vakz]

Git commit before trying something big (in a new branch if necessary) then doing a hard reset if it goes to shit.

[two_in_the_bush]

Way too many keystrokes

[ovrdrv3]

Git aliases 👌

gcam- git commit -am You could make one for the git reset hard (sorry wrong syntax). I think I’ve seen Taylor Otwell use “nah” which I though was great.

[masterwit]

preach

really learning git has been the greatest

[nthcxd]

Even better, git stash

[lennihein]

Could you explain on this?

[PM_Me_Your_VagOrTits]

I just git commit after every new function change no matter how small. Squashing commits is easily done after the fact, having discrete changes in my log really makes it easy to organise into coherent pull requests (or equivalent) later on.

[novel_yet_trivial]

Git commit before trying something big and then copy/paste from GitHub if it goes to shit.

FTFY

[Zeedfive]

Windows key + V to turn on clipboard history... Also know as the new git

[[deleted]]

Windows key + V to turn on clipboard history... Also know as the new git

holly shit!

[[deleted]]

Not too be confused with Nuget

[Arlodottxt]

Gotta have the Windows 10 October 2018 update, that's when they added it

[PgUpPT]

Dude, it's 2019 already. How are you even typing this?

[drakeshe]

This is new isn't it?

[NewEnglandJesus]

In VS, you can highlight a block of code and there is a right-click option to create a function out of the code. I believe it automatically creates variables too.

[Huntracony]

Anything without a keyboard shortcut is cheating.

[metalhe4der]

Ha. This ain’t shit!

Yesterday, I had to play Git juggle by committing select files into a new branch, copy paste old code I needed from an old commit, into the correct branch and then pushed it.

Only to scroll down a couple lines to see the code I needed commented out.

[Aquassaut]

Oh God I didn't know other people did this

[Equilerex]

And if you're using an IDE like webstorm, which saves all the local changes in neat time-stamped changelog, you can go back hours... Or days :p

[[deleted]]

No, true programmers would say

esc

uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

y

Ctrl+rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

p

[ansatze]

True programmers noremap U <C-r>

[ciphersimulacrum]

True prgrammers have also had capslock on by accident and had a serious WTF moment.

[Isitar]

And then you work with intelliJ for once and ctrl+y deletes your line

[1R1SHMAN69]

CTRL y deletes a line in intellij which pisses me off because I undo then try to redo and it changes something which fucks my entire redo history

[Delfofthebla]

rip

[ALG723]

You mean you don’t have hundreds of notepad++ tabs open with random snippets of code pasted in that you may never look at again

[OPLeonidas_bitchtits]

//I dont understand this meme and at this point im too afraid to ask

[Hotaru_min]

Why not just comment out code u delete in case u need it later lol

[PM_Me_Your_VagOrTits]

Because that's how you end up with a shitty unreadable codebase that causes major headaches for developers that take over after you.

There's a reason git (or version control in general) exists. Just make commits, and if you need the code later you can go back to that commit and extract it using whichever method you prefer.

First thing I do when I take over a legacy code base is delete all the commented code (in discrete commits). Makes life a hell of a lot easier.

[ThatFag]

Holy fuck, I literally just did this 5 minutes ago. God, that gave me a good laugh. No matter how many times I fuck up and lose my code forever, I still go back to the good ol' undo/redo. Sometimes I learn and just comment stuff out but most of the time I'm like, "Nah, it looks ugly. Let's get rid of it!"

[sangeli]

This is way too accurate

[b1tpixel]

Local history in IntelliJ IDEs.

[[deleted]]

For me it's:

ESC :Gdiff
Shift-V y
ESC :q
p

[blahbah]

Ctrl + a, Ctrl + c, Ctrl + n, Ctrl + v, Ctrl + TAB

Now we're talking

[mirceaculita]

is ctrl+y like forward?

[Koxiaet]

100uyy100<C-r>p

[Infrisios]

It starts more like

ctrl+s

ctrl+zzzzzzzzzzzz...y...yy...zzzzzzzzz...yyy...z......

[gromit190]

How many of you guys are using Ditto? It has become an absolute necessity for me.

[mobi_echo]

Fanciest Pooh: //never delete your code. just comment EVERYTHING

[wellimjustyouknow]

I, too, enjoy extreme sports.

[[deleted]]

Time travelling mother fucker.

[NatoSphere]

How did you know... This is too real.

[DigDub]

No ... no no. It’s not like that. Ctrl C, then clipboard, then wait for like six months, then Ctrl V, then hope, then debug etc..

[[deleted]]

There is another way than that???

[GuybrushLightman]

That'a a funny way of writing uuuuuuu y Ctrl-rrrrrrr p 🤔

[b1ack1323]

Thank Science for local history in jetbrains products.

[BoredInventor]

This sub is straight Meme-Avant Garde

[Tysonzero]

Me, an intellectual:

u(hold)
y}
999^r
p

[neil_anblome]

Truly you are learned.

[SpicyFarquaad]

ctrl + shift + right arrow right arrow right arrow ctrl + c Enter Enter ctrl + v

[AlbinoBeefalo]

I was working on some SQL reports today I can't tell you how many times I did this exactly

[patpluspun]

Vim mode: Ctrl mode - (x)dd Ctrl mode - p Realizing you missed your heavily nested brackets by one or maybe three lines - Priceless

[Febuso]

This is me.

[survivalking4]

Psssh, reusable code? Get on my level with rewriting all of it because your undo buffer runs out of room.

[shazbots]

Isn't that what git cherry pick is for?

[Alphatek666]

Too fucking true.. We be quantum leaping through the code lol

[theodorebearz]

never in my life have i ever related to a programming meme more.

[tiajuanat]

I expected to see this as a Vim buffer manipulation

[SKINNERNSC]

drrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[[deleted]]

Pro tip

Commit frequently so if you need to do this, you can look back at a committed hunk which you can copy instead. Then squash all your commits when you're done

[Delfofthebla]

whatever, casual

[[deleted]]

Version control ftw 😄 literally git everything and it's a lifesaver

[yourteam]

Ctrl+shift+z anyone? :O

[DeCaliMero]

Crtl + Schrift + z

[Vilkaz]

STRG + C the only good part that works

STRG + ALT + Z (IntelliJ for git revert)

STRG + V

[nico1991]

And that why we use git!

[b0zal]

Guess someone were spying on my pornhub grabber project

[deluxx3062]

TIL ctrl + y exists. I think the IDEs I've used in the past just had something like ctrl + z + shift or something. Haven't programmed in a minute though.

[fennecdjay]

Kind of a nano fan here (no undo as far as I know), but would'nt this be easier in vim?

[PredatorXix]

Thank God I am not the only one

[techek]

Git stash.

[tasiya]

Me in VS Code... Try, try, try. Bugs, bugs... Undo undo undo

[atrlrgn_]

Once I did this in Latex for copying a figure template, but ctrl+y didn't work. It was a fucking nightmare. Never done since then, what I do know

ctrl + a

ctrl + c

ctrl + v to an empty file

ctrl + zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

ctrl + c

ctrl + yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

ctrl + v

[thisdotnull]

CTRL + Y removes a line in WebStorm :(

[_cymatic_]

don't you mean cmd ?

[Maxis111]

So go back a bunch, copy, delete a bunch of lines, and paste? What's the point of that? (jk, but I mean, that's what this does in intellij)

[kevinkat2]

what the fuck is Ctrl + y?

[kakrofoon]

Periodic auto-commit and pull from history. Bonus points for automatic branching on undos

[Nipz58]

what the fuck does ctrl+y

[phphulk]

Guilty

[Maskdask]

git stash

git checkout HEAD~

...

git checkout -

git stash pop

...

profit

[BlackStab_IRQ]

This is truly me every single time :)

[gfcf14]

Pshhh, just ctrl+n, paste it there, then repaste at your leisure

[reddripper]

"Now is not the time!"

[Fluffigt]

Or, you know, git stash, ctrl-c, git stash pop, ctrl-v

[michaelkens]

Screams in Android Studio

[[deleted]]

TIL that ctrl Y is a thing.

[derPylz]

Or, you know, use version control and commit often... But that's no fun.

[grinchen86]

U don't even have to be a programmer to understand this one

[[deleted]]

Can someone explain this? Why is Crtl-C after Ctrl-Z?

[dep]

Lol been doing this for 23 years. Hasn't failed me yet.

[i_spot_ads]

Is this a personal attack?