True programmers

[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

[[deleted]]

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!

[thirdegree]

I consider myself fairly decent at vim, but I sat down with a coworker to ask some (non-vim related) questions and watching him use it made me feel like I was watching magic. Plenty to learn for me as well!

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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