@smellsofbikes Today was a bit special, I got burned...

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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.

Like 20 Mar 2023 at 5:24 | Open on merveilles.town

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smellsofbikes

@neauoire This sounds like you've made a chainsaw, and I admire that, especially in that you're actually USING it.

20 Mar 2023 at 5:26 | Open on mastodon.social

Devine Lu Linvega

@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.

20 Mar 2023 at 5:27 | Open on merveilles.town

smellsofbikes

@neauoire "this allows you to shoot yourself in the foot RECURSIVELY"

20 Mar 2023 at 5:29 | Open on mastodon.social

max22-

@neauoire @smellsofbikes you are never tired of the extra cognitive load ?

20 Mar 2023 at 10:32 | Open on mastodon.xyz

Devine Lu Linvega

@maxime_andre @smellsofbikes I don't feel tired, maybe I just forgot how it was to program using real languages.

20 Mar 2023 at 15:33 | Open on merveilles.town