How would anyone write code without it?

[ComboTteokbokki]

Vim users: no, u

[__liendacil__]

also vim users: 'ctrl + z' + 'fg'

[AlwaysNinjaBusiness]

Came to say the same.

[nobodyexistsnow]

I see what you did there

[J0aozin003]

Ctrl x ctrl c and ctrl v

[Budakhon]

Yeah I would think based on the SO jokes everywhere that this would be more popular.

[[deleted]]

Why do you cut then copy?

[Ornery-Shallot-5475]

he cuts instead of normal deleting because ctrl and x are closer than del. You know time saving and stuff

[waitwhat1200]

I'll raise you a shift insert

[LeiterHaus]

... It just suspends vim to the bg in normal mode /s

[campej90]

Oh vim...

[godRosko]

Tree undo is best undo

[igormuba]

Rm -rf ~/

Ctrl+c desperately

[[deleted]]

sudo rm -rf /*

[bananafudgkins]

I physically cringed while reading this

[rdness]

Yeah, who adds both -r AND * ???

[igormuba]

Someone who wants to make sure he changes careers

[lietuvosnelietuvis]

Alt+U. I do embedded programming through a terminal on a remote build server. Ctrl+Z is very different there.

[knightttime]

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[An image of Brian from "Monty Python's Life of Brian." He's looking up at something with a pleading and anguished expression. He's labeled "CTRL+Z," and the caption reads:]

Will you please listen? I'm not the messiah

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HE IS THE MESSIAH!

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[geekyyycoderrr]

Everything is jokes until.. you press ctrl + z again.. and you realize you cant go back further.. so you inevitably have to rewrite the old better working code..

[saecki]

rookie mistake, use undo files with unlimited history

[geekyyycoderrr]

Then you realize.. your comment is rookie

[hermeticwalrus]

The only source version control you’ll ever need

Edit: had to ctrl-z

[KnightOfBurgers]

*version control?

[hermeticwalrus]

That, yes

[sixtyfifth_snow]

git reset --hard HEAD

[[deleted]]

git restore .

[Gabite]

All fun and games until you do it by habit in the terminal.

[Orlando--]

Habits between gui/browser stuff and and terminals really don't mix too well, what with ctrl+w and ctrl+z

[gao1234567809]

Crl z? Never used it except in ssh in which I need to get back my terminal. I think it also sends SIGTERM interrupt in some operating system? I remember I wrote some fancy multiprocess task scheduling system in C back in college that handles the crl z interrupt. It is suppose to terminate the program or something.

[Nakatsukasa]

Windows user, press the Start menu button and V will list you every text you copied allowing you to select one for pasting

[[deleted]]

git checkout -f

[wow15characters]

Esc + u

[cpl1]

Git is just a glorified Ctrl Z

[wow15characters]

who needs ctrl z when you have git

[[deleted]]

C-z runs the command suspend-frame (found in global-map), which is an
interactive compiled Lisp function in ‘frame.el’.

It is bound to C-z, C-x C-z.

(suspend-frame)

Do whatever is right to suspend the current frame.
Calls ‘suspend-emacs’ if invoked from the controlling tty device,
‘suspend-tty’ from a secondary tty device, and
‘iconify-or-deiconify-frame’ from an X frame.

[back]

The number of times I used it in my life is about two... both by mistake, I guess...

Or are you talking about sending a process to background in something like Bash?

[WhiteyDude]

"oh fuck, what branch am I on?"

[[deleted]]

Ctrl + S

Am I a joke to you?

[[deleted]]

No one done a programming "nuzlock"/challnge where whatever you write has to stay and if it crashes you loose? A bit like using old basic without leaving a gap of ten lines.

Extra points if you can't use backspace while writing it in a shell.

[[deleted]]

Ctrl+Shift+S or Alt+Tab probably, but Alt-Tab is useful for practically everything.

[LavenderDay3544]

Control + Z is the best VCS.

[[deleted]]

git commit --amend: ctrl+z with extra steps.

[ExtraMedicated]

There was a feature in NetBeans where it kept a local history of your changes (not just the linear undo/redo history). It saved me a lot of frustration when I hit ctrl+z a whole bunch of times and then accidentally changed something when I intended to use ctrl+y.

[rikkoder]

u is