I don't believe Auto Save feature in any software

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Average day in (neo)vim

You can use :wq only once
- So choose wisely. All other editor instances must remain open forever.
- I use quake style terminals, and often start writing a file and completely forget about it and turn off the computer, and only remember what i left behind when i find the random recovery files around, so :w a lot is quite useful for me.
- :x
- *per open file
:w before ZZ just to make sure
Make all changes

:wq!

Force that bitch!
Is there any reason to use :w other than it being the default? I have mine mapped to CTRL-S and it makes sure to keep me in insert mode if I was in insert mode. Feels way faster and easier to spam than the 4 key presses it takes to execute “:w”.
- I'm just used to it and I'm keeping ny time in instert mode at minimum.
This will allow you to ctrl+s to save. I tried to add this in a backtick code line/block but it removes part of the syntax.
- Sorry but I'm already used to :w stoo much and a lot faster with it than ctrl+s
not mapping semicolon to colon

lel

Some of us have PTSD from losing work back in the day. Now it’s just habit.

It'd be great if there were side kind of feedback, like the cursor quickly flashing a "C" or something... anything to let you know the operation occurred; better yet, was successful.
- Check for an asterisk after the file name (in the tab/title bar), it means "unsaved changes".
- I actually disagree from a systems engineer perspective: The program doesn’t actually know shit if those bits hit any permanent medium, just that the OS told them “I’ll take care of it” it could be sitting in a write back cache when you save, see the “write complete” and rip the power and that’s all gone now. Basically, I don’t like promising durability when it’s not really there.

  :wa!

The old school programmer right here! All we’re missing is someone typing git commit -am “updates and stuff”
Basically a Jackie Chan fight scene, complete with somebody rolling a carriage at him and him kicking it back to pin them against the wall

When you do this using Word online it be like “chill dude we autosave here, we got you” and I’m like “brother I do not trust you”.

You are wise beyond your years.

We can optimize this further:

unsatisfied = true
while(unsatisfied) {
    key.dispatch(
        Keyboard::Ctrl,
        Keyboard::s
    )
}

..No, there is no instance where unsatisfied changes state

You should just be able to while(true)
- It's a joke.
- Don't worry, most modern brains have a builtin jit compiler, so when a habit starts to form, the check will be optimised out. (It saves excess neurons from being generated.)

It's because the first time doesn't always work. I swear, sometimes it doesn't!

Ctrl + C literally doesn't work at times, it drives me crazy. It might be due to some shitty applications and websites overriding it or adding complexity (Like copying not only the text but additional information).

I'm often 100% sure I copied the text, change the window and an old clipboard entry gets pasted.
- God I hate this so much. It's especially frustrating on mobile where it takes like thirty seconds to try to get the right part of the text copied and use the fucking magnified blue dots... Ugh.

CTRL + Shift + S is the real GOAT

Why?
- It saves all files that are changed rather than just the current one you have open.

:w!

I just can't stand Kate showing me a little orange bar meaning I have not saved the changes yet. The bar must be green! I am a slave to the green bar. The white dot in vscode (I use an open source build) is a bit more tolerable, but whenever I notice it I HAVE to save the file.

Kate

Ah! Another fellow coder of culture!

It's such a good text editor.
- Love me some Kate.

I've never had to think about that with Intellij IDEA. It just works!

I still click Ctrl S occasionally when using pycharm. It's the law.

Ctrl+s means "stop the presses" to VT100 terminal emulators and you have to press ctrl+q to resume. Key combinations from a different era.

I really should turn on auto save when vscode loses focus.

sync

lol, me when I transfer shit to my USB thumb drive.
sync

⬆️↩️

⬆️↩️

😂

Dude I save almost every time I type anything. It's muscle memory at this point.

This is me in eclipse.

Because I used to do the single save and it failed

Oh, eclipse. I'm still happy I don't have to save in intellij .
- I tried intellij years ago and never left it.

you CTRL+C CTRL+C CTRL+C CTRL+C CTRL+C

I CTRL+X CTRL+V we are not the same.

MFRs are saving each keystroke they have access to.

Hell sometimes I'll save just after having thought about writing something

Cost/benefit

Manually saving will save a lot more time than it not saving

sync ; sync ; sync ; shutdown -h now

I trust auto save in... Souls games.

Using JetBrains product, I never explicitly save while programming 😅

Meanwhile I, a gentleman

nmap <CR> :w<CR>

Binding the Enter key to save the current buffer. 🧐

Closing tabs and one of them asks if you want to save changes

C-x C-s

I hate editors that cut the current line if you do C-x with nothing selected. Always do C-x C-s, even in VSCode and KDevelop.

:for _ in range(32) | w | endfor

But then, if you’re forced to develop on microsoft 🤬, it’s late, you’re tired, you’re hand slides just a little to the right (win + d), aaaaand everything is gone, and you’re sitting there looking at you’re background wondering what the hell just happened 🙃.

Dude, win + d fucks, and it fucks hard. Just press it again if you can't handle
- Yeah but at 4am in the morning, it tends to take me a couple of seconds to realise what the hell just happened . It gets me every time.

I’m the same way. I think it’s just a matter of being conditioned to manually save for the majority of my computing life.

Ok here's a question I should have asked like way sooner.

In Ubuntu (and similar distros), is there a hotkey to immediately kill the process? Like CTRL-C but harsher.

My PC has a dedicated key to kill all processes.
- sudo poweroff?
I use a process manager like btop for this.
If you’re using X11, you can use xkill: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xkill

You can bind it to a key in gnome/kde (not sure how they handle custom keybinds. Otherwise add a call to xbindkeys to your .bashrc or equivalent). It kills any window you want, responsive or not.

As for the terminal, I don’t think you can send SIGKILL, but ctrl + \ will result in a core dump if you’re using bash.
CTRL-C -- SIGINT CTRL-\ -- SIGQUIT CTRL-Z + kill -9 %1 -- SIGTSTP + SIGKILL

The same can be applied for editors as well

Auto-saving is the insurance against manually saving failing, which is the insurance against the computer or program failing.

It's insurances all the way down, yet I'm still let down when versioning overwrites my changes.

I just do a full rebuild. Saves all files.

I was never really aware I did this until I had to program something with hot reloading (I don't remember what) and it was so insufferable...

And now my pain is with rustfmt. Just because I saved before filling in the struct fields does not mean I want you to format the struct accordingly!!!

Intellij being a good guy amd autosaving every few seconds. No more worrying about crtl+s.

autosave is no good if you have live reload imo

Except the autosave in BBEdit. I trust that with my life. It’s never lost ANYTHING in 30 years.

Meanwhile, me over here with the self-doubt slamming ctrl-z

Excuse me i think you mean ctrl+c:w

i just store everything in google drive and let chance take over

Why would you ever use an editor that could lose your work unless you save? Vim users will never understand that.

Actually vim has swap files which it saves to when you make any edit, whether you save the change or not, meaning you shouldn't lose any work even if you kill -9 vim on unsaved work.
- Yes, exactly. Why would anyone ever use an editor that doesn't work like that, where unsaved work could disappear? I can't understand that.

Ctrl-S? Are you writing code on Windows? 🤮

First of all, it’s fine to write code on Windows. In fact, many companies have windows-only development workflows.

Second of all, many Linux programs also use standard shortcuts like Ctrl+S. Linux is more than Vim.
- Yeah! It's also Emacs
There's no Visual Studio for Linux, so yeah.. especially as a .NET dev.

Visual Studio Code isn't the same.

Tell me you use Windows without telling me you use Windows.

Meanwhile I just reboot my Mac without bothering to save anything and everything just restores as it was, even new documents that were never saved. It works so well I don’t even think about it anymore.

You're pretty brave! That doesn't always work.

Source: have used a MacBook Pro for work for 7 years now.
Maybe these days. That definitely was not true when I was growing up, or even a decade ago.
You must have been born before they were beige that eventually turned yellow and brown.