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emacs moment (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 54 points 2 years 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.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago

nanoers just never figured out how to :wq

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Those who never managed to ESC, reset.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

And how often do you want to do that exactly?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Then you use :wq

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years 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˜…

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

:x? Real Programmers use ZZ.

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