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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 12:22 pm (UTC)Nothing helpful on the gibberish that is the content you understand...
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Date: 2010-12-17 12:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-17 12:28 pm (UTC)Oh wait, I'm wrong. You're right :)
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Date: 2010-12-17 12:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-17 12:32 pm (UTC)I recently found a less destructive but (initially) more confusing cross-OS command-confusion:
On Ubuntu, Ctrl-Alt-[arrow key] moves between the four virtual desktops, relative to which one you're on now. I do this without thinking, it's like alt-tabbing between apps.
On Windows, Ctrl-Alt-[arrow key] rotates the entire screen (absolute orientation, not relative). I'm not sure why you'd want to do this, but it means that if on a Windows machine I absent-mindedly hit Ctrl-Alt-down to get to the desktop where I've got my email/twitter/etc windows open, I just end up with the display turned upside-down.
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Date: 2010-12-17 12:38 pm (UTC)Then we started using PCs where the floppy drive was A: and the hard drive C:
Now, imagine people who had become used to formatting their floppies with FORMAT A: forgetting this when sat down at a CP/M machine. Oh, the humanity etc....
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Date: 2010-12-17 02:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-17 02:04 pm (UTC)I've never used it. But as it happens, I learned that particular key-combo for Windows the other day after someone posted on LJ to request what secret key-combo their kitten had pressed to send the whole screen sideways :)
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Date: 2010-12-17 02:05 pm (UTC)These days, I can edit, save, and exit vi without screaming. Or beeping. I'm very proud of this.
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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.
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Date: 2010-12-17 02:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-17 02:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-17 04:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-17 07:07 pm (UTC)I've never ended up with extra spurious text in a document because I forgot what editor I was using.
Don't think anyone here would do that. It's just too stupi for words.
:wq!
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Date: 2010-12-17 07:08 pm (UTC)Daddy, why can't this magnet pick up this floppy disk?
etc.
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Date: 2010-12-19 10:43 am (UTC)