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What we really mean (programming.dev)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by jeff@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

IMHO, it's a horrible hack that is just broken. It's obscure and we need to rewrite it because it has a bad structure. ^X^Cquit^[ESC][ESC]^C

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[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 48 points 2 years ago

The best way I know to quit vi is by turning off your computer

[-] Olap@lemmy.world 33 points 2 years ago
[-] VoidHeathen@mujico.org 12 points 2 years ago
[-] smitten@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago
[-] Kftrendy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 years ago

Because you meant to open ed: the standard text editor.

[-] dinodroid@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I wanted to open neovim of course. And my alias did not work

[-] chaorace 2 points 2 years ago

Because you've finished configuring the evil package, obviously.

[-] master@lem.serkozh.me 12 points 2 years ago

you can also accomplish that by turning off city's electrical grid

[-] emag@infosec.pub 7 points 2 years ago

Takes too long for the UPS to run down...

[-] b3nsn0w@pricefield.org 2 points 2 years ago

i see you're operating at datacenter scale

[-] dave@feddit.uk 6 points 2 years ago

This is the way.

[-] Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 2 years ago

I'm one of those people who think that Perl is a write-only language
-Linus torvalds

[-] jim@programming.dev 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"I can read this Perl scrip"t should translate to "I'm lying".

[-] magmaus3@szmer.info 28 points 2 years ago

ESC + :q!

ESC to enter normal mode (if you're in a different mode like insert) : (colon) to enter commands q to quit ! (or a) to use the quit command withiut keeping any changes

[-] sci@feddit.nl 21 points 2 years ago

He's speaking the language of the gods..

[-] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

ESC + (shift) ZZ is faster and also saves your changes!

[-] magmaus3@szmer.info 1 points 1 year ago

good to know :3

[-] ToastyWaffles@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I'm basically a god at work cause I knew this already, but never explained the pain I went through to get here.

[-] ObsidianBlk@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

The first phrase spoken when opening a new project, be it yours or someone elses... "What the fuck..."

[-] Bazoogle@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

What fucking idiot wrote this? Looking at your own code from 6 months ago

[-] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

I can't read this perl script may also apply to something you wrote last week.

[-] a253040@midwest.social 15 points 1 year ago

I'm absolutely guilty of self-documenting code, but mostly because I'm sick of everyone else's lying comments.

[-] Gentoo1337@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago

"The reason I use Perl is because I wanna write scripts that no one can read and no one can understand so that I can keep my job"

[-] KnorrFG@programming.dev 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

IMHO it's a complex, temporary work around with a few issues.

Also vim > emacs

[-] b3nsn0w@pricefield.org 8 points 2 years ago

i use nano and i will die on this hill

[-] astropenguin5@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Nano is the only one I know how to use lol (assuming we're talking about in-terminal text editors)

And i have used it exclusively for editing Minecraft and KSP server config files

Im definitely a programmer :P

[-] nyan@lemmy.cafe 9 points 2 years ago

Hey, now. It is possible to write readable Perl code—it's just less interesting that way. 😜

[-] VoidHeathen@mujico.org 8 points 2 years ago

Self documenting: my code doesn't NEED comments

[-] ransom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 years ago
[-] Atiran@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Sometimes I like to pack the most functionality into a single, hard to read one-liner, just for fun. In review I’ll admit “it’s a little bit abstruse”.

[-] lig@social.fossware.space 5 points 2 years ago

The Perl one has got me:)

[-] alr@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Of course, the correct way to quit Vi is ^Zpkill vi.

[-] csm10495@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Lol I've done this before!

[-] Raiden11X@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

Emacs babyyyy

[-] dinodroid@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

Good reference with lots of truth. Maybe, I should print it before having a meeting with other tech teams.

[-] fizgigtiznalkie@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 year ago

I've been seeing a lot of Perl jokes lately and as far as legacy code I haven't had to edit anything written in that in 25 or so years. For those that haven't used it, getting form variables and rudimentary things like that were like equivalent to regular expressions, everything had some obscure expression you had to look up or copy paste.

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