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 @smellsofbikes I think I might be more like your co-worker, I tend to delay it until it's absolutely ridicule. For example, I've been coding without undo for 2 years now, and each month, I'm saying to myself that I'll add it next week, it has been two years of this now. I tend to work around the shortcomings of my own projects, for which I have near infinite patience, but I would never take this sort of abuse from something I hadn't made haha 10 comments
 @neauoire This sounds like you've made a chainsaw, and I admire that, especially in that you're actually USING it. @smellsofbikes the whole ecosystem is a chainsaw, it's a self-modifying programming language. It's a chainsaw with little guns for blades. But I love it, I wouldn't want to build programs any other way.  @maxime_andre @smellsofbikes I don't feel tired, maybe I just forgot how it was to program using real languages. @neauoire The latter is an important point: when we know the trick of making it work, we put up with its weirdness. ("That's CHARM.") @neauoire Oh, no, it's like praising an old car's patina. Charm as euphemism for trouble. |
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@smellsofbikes Today was a bit special, I got burned by the lack of the feature I needed to temporarily see the definition, and lost a bunch of work.
Left has no undo, but it can quickly rename buffers, so I tend to just "stash" copies of the things I'm working on in temporary files. The problem that happened was that when I mouse2 on a word, it copies the selection into a buffer, and it overwrote what I had stashed.. I lost more time with my misclick than I spent implementing scroll-to nav.