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Is there a rune to summon Gandalf? With a suddenness that startled them all the programmer sprang to his feet. He was laughing! 'I have it!' he cried. 'Of course, of course! Absurdly simple, like most riddles when you see the answer.' Picking up his staff he stood before the terminal and typed on his old school mechanical keyboard :help  @ids1024 @spaceraser When you accidentally ‘ᚳ’, so you have to ‘ᛄ ᛄ ᛄ ᛄ ᛄ ᛄ ᛄ ᛄ ᛄ ᛄ ᛄ ᛄ’, amIright? 😂 @pixelherodev @ids1024 #vim being too powerful is a valid concern. One has to ask, what exactly was "improved" from #vi? Safety. Because simply running #vi initiates a challenge with a powerful celestial deity. Take care! @d_a_keldsen @ids1024 @pixelherodev Thought on it, and your view is correct. Bill Joy was a necromancer.  @ids1024 Challenging deities has been fixed as of the latest release of Vim. You can now enter this in command-mode: {⊃1⍵∨.∧3 4=+/+⌿¯1 0 1∘.⊖¯1 0 1⌽¨⊂⍵} to give yourself infinite life energy. The only caveat is that you must run this before you invoke ᚳ. @vertigo @ids1024 In #NeoVim you can combine them into one single command. It’s a bit long and I need to look it up every time I need it, but it is faster that way. You can also write a PlugIn to run that for you in Lua, which makes it even faster. I forgot the repo-URL but it is on GitHub. Just search for the original command as shown in the above post. Godspeed and 🖖 @ingwar @vertigo @ids1024 The problem is that #NeoVim also has a “Ragnarök”-Mode - but as a bug. If you switch two letters in the command (I don’t remember anymore which ones exactly), everything is as described (infinite life energy, challenge deity, etc), but then, during the battle, you (as a side-effect) destroy at least one planet, and sometimes a solar system, … I already reported this as a bug but you … /2 Don't forget :q! to exit more emphatically. Might come in handy if the deity marks your buffer as modified. @ids1024 How my browser can't display the last eight keybinding letters ...  @Anniiii eh, that's fair but fwiw I used it with Doom Emacs and it was fairly decent @Anniiii oh, sorry I didn't explain that too well I meant Emacs Doom comes with EVIL keybindings for pretty much everything and *those* are pretty decent Absolutely agree on the default keybindings though lmao @ronsboy67 @ids1024 I am not fighting a war here haha I personally like vim because I rather have a software that is usable ootb and is installed on most systems, but I see why people like emacs @Anniiii @ids1024 sadly, both are in my past now. CLI requires reliable communication between brain and hands, mine have been on increasingly frosty terms for many years. It's why I gave up Linux too, because there is still afaik, nothing in the FLOSS world that comes close to DragonNaturallySpeaking, on which I have becomne ever more dependent. But seeing the (jocular) sparring between vi & emacs gave me a genuine nostalgic glow 😀 @ronsboy67 @ids1024 Oh, sorry to hear. I am in the lucky position to not rely on such tools, but I agree we definitely need more and better quality of those tools if we ever really wanna be a good alternative for everyone  #vim and even #vi are bloatware. If you can't change a file by sed, you don't deserve it 😂 Did I work to much inside #container environments?  @thomasfricke @ids1024 fair, but changing a file in batch mode and editing it interactively is different. sed is not an interactive editor, despite still having an EDitor in its name Interactivity? I am not sure, if this has come to stay in the time of automation. 😂  @thomasfricke @birnim @ids1024 I think ed is enough. Works interactive and in batch mode, no bloatware like ex. :-)  @echopapa @thomasfricke @birnim @ids1024 @thomasfricke @echopapa @birnim @ids1024 @thomasfricke @DocBohn @echopapa @ids1024 all I remember about punch cards is their hard paper. they made great whips, a nice addition to DIY wooden swords @birnim @thomasfricke @echopapa @ids1024 Yeah, I got into computing as paper was on its way out -- I learned to program on a Heathkit H89, and in my undergrad days we used VT102 and Wyse-50 terminals. My freshman textbooks straddled the eras. I once used a roll of punchtape as a source of bookmarks that lasted for *years*.  @ids1024 If you challenge the deity while in insert mode, can you add an explicit challenge? In other words can you do this?  @ids1024 I've got the hang of most of these, but I can never remember that last one, and any time I try to experiment to find it, I accidentally open a portal to Yog-Sothoth @ids1024 emacs can do this too actually, in most major modes C-x C-d C-M-F is bound to fight-god @ids1024 My first introduction to navigating with HJKL keys was NetHack, so this makes perfect sense to me. @ids1024 StackOverflow: How to quit eternal torment in Vim? Hi, this is my first post here. I challenged Zeus using the ᚳ command as it says in this toot [link], and now I really want to exit Vim. I’ve tried typing :q like the manual says but nothing happens. Urgently need advice as I’m chained to a rock and a freaking huge eagle is eyeing my liver. @noctuaminervae @ids1024 Oh, to exit when you have challenged something that identifies as a *elder* god, you need to press: <ESC><ESC><ESC>:q!<Enter>q!<Enter>  @tivasyk @ids1024 If not the mortals, then maybe ChatGPT? Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! Ctrl+Shift+Alt+C: Summon Cthulhu. This keybinding combination will unleash the ancient god of chaos and destruction, Cthulhu, from its slumber in the depths of R'lyeh. Those foolish enough to attempt this command will suffer greatly, for Cthulhu will bring with it madness and destruction. Now I'm afraid of ChatGPT _and_ Cthulhu... 😃 @ids1024 that is correct, but now that one masters the interactive mode, what are the runes to actually edit text? Asking for a friend 🤪  @ids1024 Now I wish I wouldn't have gone with the smaller keyboard layout. I have no idea where the runes layer is! 😂  @ids1024 it's so primitive. I prefer the simplicity and intuitivety of Nano, and no learning curve. Sadly, VI commands are ingrained in my brain from years of abuse. I never dared play with emacs. @SilentJoy @ids1024 I'd watch out for Nano, what with its teensy little gods? Enrage them with an accidental ᛄ of supplication to their rivals, and then where are you? The insecurity... it's dangerous... @SilentJoy @ids1024 I would actually love something like nano but with a little more power, that you can learn incrementally without any steep learning curve thresholds. Does something like that exist? I don't mind if it only summons little gods.  @ids1024 Of course, NeoVim adds Old Enochian as a domain-specific language for demon summoning in addition to VimScript and it's own specialized voudon-oriented dialect of Lua, Loa. @d_a_keldsen @cstross @ids1024 this reminds me old joke about strong password generator and another one: "been using vim for 3y now, mostly trying to exit it" You left out ESC. That is where people get confused. The number one thing that people need to learn about vi and vim (these days), is that you are either in command mode or edit mode. They need to learn that if they get confused to use the ESC key to get back to command mode. Then they can try :q! or :wq! Power off can confuse them even more if they run into the recovery file. When learning vim, make sure you understand the purpose of ESC.  @ids1024 I just wish there was some sort of -y command line option to automatically respond affirmatively when I’m asked if I’m a deity. Maybe I need to build my own extension for it.  @ids1024 I have used vim once, recently. That is why I have not used vim twice.  @ids1024 hell yeah! I've used vi for 20+ years and won't touch anything else by choice. Once you start mastering macros for editing, it becomes way more useful. Feel free to dG this comment 😁  @ids1024 Hi, I accidentally opened a gateway between worlds and summoned a malignant Sumerian-aged deity that's demanding I select the form of the destructor- what keystroke do I use to pick that? @ids1024 If you find yourself moving through cthonic spheres when you press ᚻ, ᛄ, ᚳ and ᛚ, or can't exit with :q, check to see if you have your caps lock on  @ids1024 You joke, but Vim actually has commands for time travel, and no, they’re not bound to obscure Greek alphabets. :earlier 5m :later 4m   vi mode in the zsh is a must because with creative combinations of η, λ, and ᛄ you can go through your command history and ask to have that `rm` undone. @ids1024 Do we have to present these commands by showing rune stones to the computer or will using the keyboard suffice? Technically there's already commands to travel through time! g- Also `:earlier 5m` and `:later 5m` @ids1024 surprisingly enough, the same keystrokes, in order listed, will also merely calculate the average of a list of integers on APL programming language. BTW, this is best practiced while playing the new-ish "5D chess" game (on Steam, among others), where, on a YouTube vid you can hear: "Ah yes, the classic: two rows up and back in time" (and the expected comment: "ah, yes... the CLASSIC...") @ids1024  @ids1024  @ids1024 Kratos says "traveling through time is more trouble than it's worth" so I'd avoid those @ids1024: I can't believe you left out the command for "toggle astral projection mode", its in my top 10 of commands for daily use. @ids1024 Easily the most common mistake newbies make is forgetting to periodically hit λ to catch the application state up with their typing. |
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