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venta(Geeky) Note to self:
You're using a Windows editor. Ctrl-X Ctrl-S does not do what you want.
It looks like it did what you want.
In fact, it did do the thing you wanted. It just deleted an arbitrary line of text before it did it.
The net result of this can be disastrous.
Stop doing it!
You're using a Windows editor. Ctrl-X Ctrl-S does not do what you want.
It looks like it did what you want.
In fact, it did do the thing you wanted. It just deleted an arbitrary line of text before it did it.
The net result of this can be disastrous.
Stop doing it!
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Date: 2010-12-17 12:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-17 02:07 pm (UTC)I met emacs in the 90s, when those keyboard shortcuts seemed to be the norm.
Interestingly, the instructions given to me in my first Imperative Programming Practical were along the lines of "type this and then type this". Ctrl-X Ctrl-S was just a magical key combo they told you to press. No one mentioned that that was what saved the damn thing. It was just a hoop you had to jump through to make things work.
Similarly, gcc <insert nonsense here> was just some magical runes one had to type. If they'd mentioned that those runes invoked a compiler, the world would have made a lot more sense a lot more quickly.