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Hey Joe
Where you goin' with that gun in your hand?
Just for Joe, no cookie requirement on the math plugin now. I'll have you know I did it myself. Had to vee-eye the file and everything. (kidding, I'm actually vi and shell proficient, so nyeah.) There was some obscure comment in the code about not requiring cookies being less secure, so I'm going on faith that I don't all of a sudden start getting clobbered by spam comments.
Drop an email please if I comments are broken for you. Welcome to off-the-grid!
:wq
June 27th, 2006 at 4:05 pm
Have I mentioned that the reason I read this blog is the peppering of geek references such as “:wq” ? Nicely done.
Pressing Submit now..crossing fingers..
June 28th, 2006 at 4:42 am
Heh… am I the only one to have on more than one occasion typed :wq into an IM window or guild chat?
June 28th, 2006 at 8:19 am
^X^S^X^C
vi scum.
emacs forever.
June 28th, 2006 at 11:02 am
I feel special! I have to say this though, I have no idea why people use the dreaded :wq when ZZ saves you an entire keystroke.
June 28th, 2006 at 11:19 am
I feel special!
God, anything to shut you up already!
(j/k)
I have no idea why people use the dreaded :wq when ZZ saves you an entire keystroke.
And now your moment of geek pedantism: With the Return key (which ZZ doesn’t need), it actually saves 2 keystrokes. /em adjusts pocket protector
Don’t know about anyone else, but I use :wq is because there’s a builtin pause that gives an extra milisecond to think about if I really want to save what I just did or not. It seems like a little thing, but it’s been just enough to have saved me a couple times. ZZ is just way too easy.
June 28th, 2006 at 11:52 am
Yeah, I forgot to edit that after it failed to post and add in “but it didn’t work”. It still requires cookies. I still feel special though, its the thought that counts and all.
pwned! Maybe its not cookies, maybe I just can’t count
Since you are using linux, I would assume your vi is actually vim. In that case you can just add “set backup” to your ~/.vimrc and you will get an annoying filename~ backup anytime you save a file. If you also set backupdir=somewhere then it will put them all there instead of cluttering up all your directories with backup files.
So now you can double your “save and exit” productivity safely
June 28th, 2006 at 12:41 pm
OMG. I HATED VI.
I thanked the matrix gods when our BSD installation had PICO.
June 28th, 2006 at 1:00 pm
Ack. I just re-checked the file, and the change is definitely implemented. ‘Fraid I don’t know enough about php to really delve into it. I’ll ask around though.
June 28th, 2006 at 6:25 pm
emacs forever.
Exactly. I’m going to submit a patch so that emacs will start up, hunt Amber down, and make her repent for her evil vi using ways.
…
Oh, wait, it’s already in there.
Anyway, real geeks program in LISP.