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. XCquit[ESC][ESC]C

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    1 year ago

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

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    1 year 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

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    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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    1 year 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”

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