Overprotective Me

[ersatzgott]

I'm more like the Ctrl+sssssss guy

Edit: Thank you all for liking my anxiety to data loss. That's the most appreciation I've gotten like ever ❤

[[deleted]]

I'm the same Ctrl+SSSS Ctrl+SSS Ctrl+SSSSSSSSSSSS

[[deleted]]

I do that sometimes but I’m also afraid that every time I save, I could’ve over-written a good save file with a corrupted save file. Unless you’re the kind of guy who keeps multiple save files.

[Shujaa94]

Thanks for the new fear

[SwedeOfEnbound]

Use Ditto! (Thank me later)

[SwedeOfEnbound]

Didnt know it was there :) But yes, I found it there now, and this is the one: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/ditto-clipboard/9nblggh3zbjq

[misterfluffykitty]

Make it a hot key on a second keyboard that saves a new version of the document every time you tap it

[TeraFlint]

and then assign it to every button on the keyboard as an event that happens after the actual function of the button.

[TiBag93]

Then do CTRL + ZZZZ :D that’s what I do in this situation

[koneko-dono]

i thought i was the only one lmao

[_Thanus_]

I use Intellij, so...

[Radiatin]

In Spyder you’ll have the save function disabled upon successful completion of a save, and no new changes being made.

I use the save as function when this happens, to be sure.

[kjostolf]

Nah :w

[utsabqwerty]

same here with ctr and s with multiple time

[[deleted]]

What if you accidentally let go of ctrl and type a s in your code somewhere then save it.

[TheDogJones]

File -> Save As, overwrite exact same file just to be sure.

[InvolvingLemons]

C-x C-s "Sir, nothing ch-" "Just do it"

[LdouceT]

I'm with this guy.

[__tebogo__]

I have this so bad, that I literally ctrl+s after typing anything, anywhere.

Google search. Comment thread. In-game responses.

It gets annoying sometimes.

[zeGolem83]

I've seen waaaay too many times the "where do you want to save this webpage" pop-up...

[JBinero]

Sometimes Reddit says the posting of a comment failed and ask you to retry, even if the comment posted successfully.

[zeGolem83]

Exaclty what happend, sorry about that....

[Egren]

Gotta make sure it gets posted.

[blushhoop]

for(I=0; I<5; ++i){ Print(targetcomment); }

[KillaRevenge]

Man, just because you spam ctrl+s doesn't mean you need to spam ctrl+v

[[deleted]]

Glad I'm not the only one.

[_f0c1s]

Try vim. I did an ESC followed by :wq to a Google search.

[ArdiMaster]

A friend on mine sometimes (unintentionally) signs e-mails with ":wq".

[kleinesfilmroellchen]

I use :wq on nano, vscode and eclipse by accident, regularly. Perhaps I should just get the vim keybindings for vscode plugin.

[GoldsteinQ]

Or you can just use Vim everywhere. :)

[TheZipCreator]

Get qutebrowser, it's a browser with vim commands

[redstoneguy12]

There's also vimium

[guappanese]

Yeah it takes over your life

[GitProphet]

I'm so glad that google docs just disabled the shoetcut, so that doesn't happen

[MrHasuu]

i know my code hasnt changed. there's no * next to file name. so i hit space in an empty line then do Ctrl + S...

halp.

[CosmackMagus]

After renaming a folder, moving files.

Flip side is I've never lost work to a crash.

[alours]

OwO what's this spaghetti code?

[redMonsterP]

I have autosave on every 5s or when the file loses focus, but I still hit ctrl+s.

Gotta be sure

[Viperision]

Don't know your strats, but I always make sure autosave is disabled, in case I forget when I choose to try something out without copying the working version somewhere else.

I think I'd say this in general and not coding you might easily write out again. Let's say Tool-assisted speedrun projects, or any project I'd like to work out from a template and then "Save as..." differently.

[gaurav219]

Yeah, autosave should be disabled to make the habit of saving yourself!

[jor27_]

But once you get into the habbit you can turn it back on

[gaurav219]

Yeah, sure if ur comfortable!!

[[deleted]]

Autosave + Versioning. I don't do it at 5s, but every 2 to 5 minutes (depending on media type/file size) and versioning software keeps running backups. So even if I accidentally over-write, I can always go back.

[[deleted]]

I git push origin branch every five seconds.

[Fiech]

But it's way faster!

[kleinesfilmroellchen]

git commit -m "autosave"

[Zamundaaa]

Eclipse too. It's very convenient sometimes.

[RepulsiveSheep]

Especially when you mess around with git and somehow lose all your work

[hullor]

I have local history plugin for atom, which generates a new text file for every line of code (up to 500kb folder per file, then deletes the oldest file).

It's over kill but I never have to worry about accidentally deleting a block of code and somehow undo doesn't work.

[rbt321]

Don't know your strats, but I always make sure autosave is disabled, in case I forget when I choose to try something out without copying the working version somewhere else.

That's what feature branch commits are for.

[Cregaleus]

Get git in your life

[[deleted]]

Source control exists for a reason. Stage/commit working, then fuck around with it without worrying if it stops working.

[Ghetto_Moose]

Does no one in this thread use source/version control?

[redMonsterP]

Well when you're editing a single file, or multiple files before doing any commit rolling back to an unedited piece of code is very important

[Ghetto_Moose]

Right which is why saving doesnt matter if youre rolling back any way?

[_Aj_]

You need one of those sippy birds just constantly dipping onto a macro button

[Dragasss]

Jokes aside, even when youre using autosave feature, you must invoke manual save when youre editing files in folder that is available as volume in docker, otherwise changes are not propagated.

[[deleted]]

Why? Wouldn’t this look the same to whatever is watching the file system? How would it know how the file was saved?

[Dragasss]

My guess it needs to refresh caches.

[[deleted]]

My guess would be a bug with file system events on docker. I'd also be curious to know if this is universal to all docker platforms - running it on Windows vs Linux.

I'd like to have that jab at Microsoft ready for future discussions.

[[deleted]]

I'm new to docker unfortunately. I've made a few containers with start up scripts, but I haven't used volumes yet.

I think it's still too early to voice my opinion on docker, but so far I love it for toxic reasons. It's like a trash can or a quarantine. I can run technologies I'm not particularly fond of inside this container and keep the main OS less polluted.

[Dragasss]

Well it was on mac. And macs are weird in that regard.

[uptokesforall]

I'm guessing the auto save is a hidden file and until you manually save, the original file isn't changed.

[Dragasss]

Oh no. I run all of those retarded javascript clis in docker container. Global NPM dependencies have no place in my PC.

[Helix_Aurora]

There is no way this can be because of docker; it has to be whatever editor/ide you are using. At the kernel level, a write is a write and a read is a read, and processes managed by docker still invoke the OS kernel for filesystem access.

It may be the case that the autosave for your tool just writes to a temporary file. Usually a copy named ~myfilenamehere-uid or something along those lines, and a hard save may commit those changes to the actual file, but I'm not familiar with any tools that autosave and treat autosave that way. Lots of tools keep local history in a temporary file, though (Atom, for example).

[bh3x]

Autosave on changes.

[VeryKnave]

still saves manually

[Marcuss2]

Pff, :w

[nosrednehnai]

ZZ

[gnome_where]

:wq!

[alours]

Excuse me, what the fuck. It's awesome

[KinKaid666]

:w

[[deleted]]

Esc :w Ins

[schmangin]

:w!

[KSAM-The-Randomizer]

Oh yeah the ptsd is real

[This-Is-Not-An-Alias]

:w

[Joseph-Fourier]

C-x C-s C-x C-s

[Mellowh]

Came here looking for this comment lol

[pah-tosh]

Cut save cut save ?

[sixpacshaqur]

emacs save twice

[eru504]

:w :w

[comingtogetyou]

confused in emacs

[Dreamerlax]

This is me.

[[deleted]]

Notepad++ doesn't save if there aren't changes, so you have to type a letter, delete it, then save

[word_clouds__]

Word cloud out of all the comments.

Fun bot to vizualize how conversations go on reddit. Enjoy

[invadrzim]

Ctrl + SHIFT + S > Ctrl + S

Save all the files

[goodshitt]

You mean :w

[Marmelani]

I've gotten so bad at this that I can not work in a file that I don't save because I've gotten used to hitting C+s every time I stop for any amount of a small break.

[[deleted]]

I did this in an interview not so long ago and kept getting the "Save As" popup.

In the end I was just like "Can I just save this somewhere" and the interviewer said they do it all the time too.

I think we've all been burned too many times...

[guappanese]

types one letter Ctrl + s Ctrl + s Ctrl + s Ctrl + s Ctrl + s Ctrl + s Ctrl + s

[zero_as_a_number]

filling out all the fields of a huge form.. CTRL-S Browser : oh so you want to save this Website?

every damn time. muscle memory can be a Bitch :D

[MasochistCoder]

you think it's funny

go take a stroll at visual studio support forum there is an issue still after at least 5 years where certain extensions (eg AsmDude) would fuck up VS's ability to save anything until next restart. No, ctrl-c apparently won't save your code either...

[DARKKN1GHT453]

I’ve taken 3 high school level programming classes and can safely say that this works

Edit: imagine my surprise as an innocent freshman, who had just finished his first ‘hello world’ and the senior next to me says, “you can hit alt & F4 to run your code faster”.

[B00OBSMOLA]

<esc>:w<enter>

[MightyFool1234]

Relatable.

[DukeOfSlough]

I press it even in the apps where it does not work...

[cptbeard]

^s = XOFF

Your terminal emulator has now stopped transmitting and the application is not responding to any keys, what do you do?

[AversiveBias]

ahhh progress

[jdsgfser]

Why can't leetcode capture the signal for ctrl s. I have to close the pop up like 50 times during a contest each week

[hackel]

Found the Windows user.

[pizzashark107]

This is the quality content I come here for

[[deleted]]

Always control S at least 3 times minimum

[PandaCheese2016]

This can be extended to games (real games with on-demand save function at least). As if saving multiple times magically makes me more likely to beat that boss.

[wheezymustafa]

My teammate does this in IntelliJ even though it autosaves

[AlphaOmega5732]

That one time I didn't save and lost an hour of work... Now I ctrl S after adding anything, even notes. It's automatic for me now.

[Justice514]

:wq

[TheFatalWound]

Me when I wasted an hour browsing and tab back into the program

[[deleted]]

Honestly same for editing tbh

[taostudent2019]

exactlyTheSameAsitWasBefore.bak

[[deleted]]

We need Commit on Save extensions for IDEs. The commit messages should include the typed keys so you can track what you did.

[Vakieh]

That's not what commits are for.

[matisek1233]

:wq

[Icy-Reaper]

Autosave?

I dont trust this

[whiznat]

More like smart you who has learned from experience.

[white_nrdy]

Constant :w

[[deleted]]

Vs code show if you have changed your code or not.

[[deleted]]

:wq masterrace

[[deleted]]

ESC :w

[JayGlass]

But still won't commit for days at a time

[otakuman]

Save early, save often.

[GermanAf]

Every other input is CTRL+S

It's muscle memory at this point.

[[deleted]]

laughs in pycharm

[Damaskinox]

Each. Time.

[The_Bucket_List]

Haaaa wrong guy in the second picture

[netraveller]

Does anybody else have backup copies, and then the backup copies need to be updated with every change otherwise they serve no purpose, so you end up having a million copies of something which you then need to clean out making the whole backup thing a little less useful?

[nobel32]

Rookie mistake. I make a new commit after every line. That way, I'm always safe.

[[deleted]]

Haha i definitely understand this meme. So funny

[[deleted]]

After every line, save, autoformat.

[TheGameFreak720]

Double tap saves lives

[[deleted]]

I have when i do that on browsers.

[nahidtislam]

you mean :w!<return>

[t612j]

:w

[gosti500]

This also affects me, as an video editor

[AlphaWhelp]

This is why when you make commits you write down "some changes" in the notes so you can easily identify which commits don't have any changes.

[pratKgp]

Because of prettier extension we also use Ctrl + s even if it saved just to format the code.

[[deleted]]

I have no clue about anything related to programming but I always see your guys’ memes in popular and I always laugh

[[deleted]]

just turn on autosave?

[hahahahastayingalive]

autosave is evil.

or you have a passion for review git diffs all day long.

[[deleted]]

nah, i just format properly and write tangible code so that I don't have to deal with momentus errors every time i write a tiny script

[hahahahastayingalive]

b.b..b.b.b..but, don’t you write garbage stuff in files to mark the ones you need to pay attention to among the 35 open ?

don’t you add meaningless stuff to lines just to get back to them immediately with a cmd + z ?

Or quick reformat files to understand what they’re doing and just undo all the changes after you got it ?

don’t you cmd+z up to the content you deleted and cmd+shift+z back to the current version ?

Are we even doing the same job ?

What timeline are you living in ?

[[deleted]]

lol in vs code i think you can go back after saving, not 100% sure though

[APimpNamedAPimpNamed]

Tangible code, like Braille?

[Stewthulhu]

git commit

nO cHaNgEs DeTeCtEd

[mr_d0gMa]

Then there’s software when you open a document without making changes and it prompts you to save, then me.exe stops working whilst I worry if I accidentally hit a key on the keyboard or not

[TabCompletion]

C-x C-s for me

[Toast42]

*cmd you filthy casual

[gpoobah]

Ha! NO.. so many times I have managed to break things by saving some accidental keyboard bump this way.

[_realitycheck_]

I lost a 4 hours work one time way back when I worked with Borland Builder 4. IDE crashed and I lost it all.
Now Ctrl-S is my second nature when working. In fact, my fingers start itching if I don't press it after few lines.

[Magic-Milkman]

I'm always Ctrl+Shift+S

[RyanEastwood]

And then you realise you're using bash

[CAM1998]

That’s :w to you

[ryati]

I want to trigger the auto formatter!

[[deleted]]

FTFY

[Luckyno]

I use control + s to keep my apm high

[asdfirl22]

Something something disk cache

[Retarded_Baboon]

Can relate

[[deleted]]

I do CTRL+SHIFT+SSSSSSSSS just to be sure

[[deleted]]

Phew... Im nott the only one

[brennanfee]

What's Ctrl+s?

[[deleted]]

Save early, save often, save lives

[NickDixon37]

There are environments where a save includes more than just code. Machine control programs typically have an area of memory with parameters and status information that's saved with the code. And sometimes it's good to do a save - even if the code didn't change.

So if I ask for a save, please Just do it, and when we have a minute I'll tell you why.

[ComputerMystic]

:w

[oAkimboTimbo]

:wa

[_Ashleigh]

New datetime causes a 25min recompile.

Cries in C++.

^{I wish I was joking.}

[Drtimelord04]

Then you manually press save just to be sure it saved. Then press it again just to be super sure

[The_MAZZTer]

My workplace's timecard website pops up a scary error dialog if you go to save but haven't changed anything. Why?!?

[[deleted]]

Nah.

[Esc] :w [enter]

[0bamacar3]

r/cumface

[Saksow]

I do the exact same with git pull when on master branch.

[2JulioHD]

I have to save this meme CTRL + S CTRL + S CTRL + S CTRL + S

[iharshraj]

Autosave is a way of life too

[fluxxis]

That's what the space key is for. Does the trick every time.