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emacs moment (lemmy.world)

I watched oppenheimer in emacs, u watched it in imax, we are not the same

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[-] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago
[-] Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev 54 points 1 year ago

An extremely extensible text editor, there's jokes that it can do literally anything, you can play music, watch video, etc.

It's often at war with the cult of vi and the church of emacs.

[-] Weirdbeardgame@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 year ago

Don't forget us nanoites. The clearly superior text editor

[-] norawibb@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 year ago

nanoers just never figured out how to :wq

[-] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 year ago

if you listen closely, you can still hear the terminal bells ringing of those that never managed to ESC

[-] Ddhuud@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Those who never managed to ESC, reset.

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago
[-] nekomusumeninaritai@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They just said :wq in school, so thanks for the tip. Hard to believe it saves even when the file hasn't been changed if you use :wq. What is the use case for that? If the file gets changed in another program and you want to revert?? Edit: Just saw the comment about the modification times being updated.

[-] yetAnotherUser@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

But what if you wanted to write even if there weren't changes?

[-] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Then you use :wq

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

And how often do you want to do that exactly?

[-] Ferk@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

:x? Real Programmers use ZZ.

[-] norawibb@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

habit lol. i use :w a lot so :wq feels like a natural extension

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Heh yeah and it's not like it makes any difference; they're effectively the same thing. :wq just updates modification time even if there were no changes โ€“ same as doing :w and :q separately โ€“ but :x doesn't. Super intuitive interface ๐Ÿ˜…

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