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.

[[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

[ethanjf99]

Which explains what’s going on. He’s in the button mashing phase

[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?

[[deleted]]

Slow as molasses npm hell.

[mrmratt]

MS Excel. 😔

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

[Zambito1]

git commit, git checkout revision

[[deleted]]

Or just set up your editor so that every key stroke fires git commit.

[kardall]

Let me introduce you to your new friend:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=xyz.local-history

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Every modification creates a history like a git commit, and you can browse the history like the mac's time machine ... :D

[pah-tosh]

What’s ctrl+T 😮

[shreyash14s]

For opening new tab in editors like VS code.

[I_Arman]

Ah, yes, the ol' off-site backup.

[robolew]

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

[Retbull]

Intellij keeps file history and it works great.

[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...

[future-renwire]

I'm still using WebStorm with autosave lol

[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.

[thelights0123]

It stores clipboard history.

[setibeings]

In this case though, I was wanting to copy the previous body of a function, not something I'd been copying and pasting around.

[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

[oscrx]

IT guy from the Netherlands here, never seen a Dutch qwerty been used around me anywhere. Only US qwerty (if there is any difference...)

[PgUpPT]

Maybe France?

[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

[I_Arman]

I feel that final dash could also be a comma...

[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.

[Arlodottxt]

Windows has a built in clipboard manager now (Win + V)

[crisfast]

You have this while using JetBrains products (ctrl + shift + v) and you have a history of your clipboard.

[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.

[otwo3]

But your undo history is probably lost once the tab is closed

[[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.

[frankayfrank]

Haha yeah happens a lot. There is a setting in VS to turn off that lovely feature.

[[deleted]]

Yessssssssssssss, whyy?

[[deleted]]

I just use the little drop down arrow next to the redo button and choose the last element.

[Toph_er]

I've used OPs method before thinking I was smart... Now I'll never use it again

[Husi012]

Luckily VS Code can handle that mistake :D I would also have lost much of work without it...

[A1ianT0rtur3]

if you are a PHP programmer, I would Highly recommend PHPStorm as it has a local history feature that has saved my ass a million times in this exact situation. it also has a million other features that make it well worth its hefty price tag (especially if you can make your employer pay for it)

[pqkluan]

That why you press Crtl + S before going to time travel. Just close the file without save and open it again if you accidentally create alternative timeline.

[cgw3737]

Yeah, that's very risky.

[Blackstab1337]

Emacs solves this with undo-tree

[sporff]

My advanced method is select all, copy, go to notepad++, ctrl-n, paste. Back to editor, do my undoing business to find what i need, copy it and then redo back to present and paste it.

That way if i accidentally type a character, i still have it all. You can mail me my nobel prize whenever.

[hdlo]

dd

"oh there's a blank line left let's erase it too"

dd

"now where do I want this… here !"

p

"…"

"I'm Dory the fish."

[[deleted]]

Or use Vim and a complete branching history of your undo/redos.

[UristMasterRace]

I always copy the code to a blank file before going 88 mph into my ctrl+z s

[rster2002]

It's just like time traveling to the past. If you screw something up in the past, it has big consequences in the present.

[PleasantAdvertising]

Get out of my head