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.
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.
Check for an asterisk after the file name (in the tab/title bar), it means “unsaved changes”.
<esc> <esc> <esc> <esc> <esc> <esc> :wa! <cr>
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.
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.
Mobile is an entirely different beast. Like sometimes my keyboard doesn’t show up. Or the text select refuses to work. And so on. It’s a mess. Even on a Galaxy S22.
No clue how people can exist without a proper computer at home and still do stuff online.
CTRL + Shift + S is the real GOAT
Why?
It saves all files that are changed rather than just the current one you have open.
TIL thanks!
fuck i needed this
:w!
Esc Esc Esc :w!
Most accurate
Caps caps caps :w! Is the way
C-x C-s wtf!
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’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.
Dude I save almost every time I type anything. It’s muscle memory at this point.
MFRs are saving each keystroke they have access to.
Hell sometimes I’ll save just after having thought about writing something
I really should turn on auto save when vscode loses focus.
I trust auto save in… Souls games.
sync ; sync ; sync ; shutdown -h now
Cost/benefit
Manually saving will save a lot more time than it not saving
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.
