Toksyuryel (toksyuryel)
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- toksyuryel
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- Toksyuryel
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- Some kind of otherkin dragon thing who thinks he'll be a professional programmer someday. Favorite pony is Pinkie Pie, but Luna is best pony. Figure that one out.
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@widget Unlike Python, trailing commas are a syntax error so I have to put them in front. It ensures that I never forget to add commas if I have to add new items to the list.
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@widget vim be full of awesome productivity features like that ☺
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It's nice having headphones that work again!
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!premonition The icon for this group ought to be gypsy pinkie pie from the time travel episode
about 2 hours ago from web -
@widget You can turn off the text wrapping in nano by supplying the -w flag (or turning it off in your .nanorc), but then it just scrolls the text off the screen which makes editing long lines really frustrating. Not really an issue when coding but for other things it's a problem. nano also likes to add an extra newline at the bottom of every file that I could never figure out how to get rid of.
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@widget Yes but you have to have the cursor positioned already. The only one where it'll do the "find next" behavior is with quotes. But it does work for any kind of container symbol, and you can even do it with markup elements. Check out `:help object-select` for more.
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@widget Suppose you want to actually *type* one of those into the document you're editing?
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@widget That doesn't work quite so well for switching from insert mode to command mode, which is by far the most common mode switch that involves pressing <ESC>.
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How does one go about removing sweat stains from the armpits of a woot t-shirt?
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@dezzierose Trouble is I don't *know* they're prophetic until the event actually happens, and telling anyone about a dream before then seems to preclude the events of that dream from happening. It evidently only works with dreams that I forget within about an hour and never share. There are a few potential explanations for this, the most reasonable of which is that since the predictions are always mundane things the dreams are never interesting enough to share or remember. Perhaps I could try sharing *every* dream I have?
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Well good night everypony *plushiehug*
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@pony I think it's effective for all forms of text editing, but to each their own ☺
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@pony My learning method was slightly stricter (I did choose to ban the arrow keys, simply because I knew I would never learn hjkl if I wasn't using it constantly from day one; but that's me), but the gist of it is the same- incrementally learn how to do it right, do it wrong in the meantime. Every couple weeks or so I learn or discover something vim can do that is immediately useful, and it replaces something I was doing wrong. Repetition is important for memorization (using Pentadactyl really helps with this part, btw), but only if you aren't trying to memorize a billion things all at once. The on-line help facility is great at helping you discover new things when you are reading to discover them.
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@omni Some good advice for learning vim: http://yehudakatz.com/2010/07/29/everyone-who-tried-to-convince-me-to-use-vim-was-wrong/
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@sonorouscadenza I've been boycotting skype for years ever since the anti-AMD stunt they pulled. Then they went and got themselves purchased by Microsoft. So yeah.
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@omni You clearly have not read the manpage. nano has quite a bit of hidden power. It's nothing close to the scale of vim or emacs, but it still blows notepad out of the water. The only thing I really hate about it is the stupid way it handles text wrapping.
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@cavatina I guess they're still too used to windows where "what comes with the OS" is just all of Microsoft's terrible software (which includes the OS itself).
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@sonorouscadenza It's $10.
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@omni That's a strange reaction, considering nano is the standard editor on Gentoo.
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@sonorouscadenza Try Spacechem while you're waiting.
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