Because maybe. You're gonna be the one who saves me.

[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!

Comments

[fractalgeek.livejournal.com]

Just because you turned on the WordStar compliant menus in Emacs 25 years ago....

[beckyl.livejournal.com]

Oasis Wonderwall.

Nothing helpful on the gibberish that is the content you understand...

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Oh blimey yes. See also saving webpages by accident when I press Ctrl-S instead of Ctrl-F in the browser.

[j4.livejournal.com]

Erk, yes, that could be catastrophic!

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.