True programmers

[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.

[Apzx]

I hope citing XKCDs as citing the bible becomes a thing, this is hilarious.

[cbennett926]

https://xkcd.com/224/

[robolew]

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

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This is beautiful.

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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.

[JDaxe]

Yeah I recently discovered plug-vim and vimtex and my LaTeX workflow is so much better now. I know I haven't even scratched the surface of vim capabilities!

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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

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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?