kellogh, 1 month ago

@ovid i have a script called gi that removes the first letter from the first argument and passes args to git

gi tpush => git push

it also leaves a harassing message to myself to type better next time

luap, 1 month ago

@ovid what if alias mdkir to rm -rf instead, and see if that breaks the habit?

ovid, 1 month ago

@luap Close, but what you really want is:

alias emacs=vim

Makes pair programming so much more fun!

:wq

#emacs #vim

l13u7anant, 1 month ago

@ovid @luap alias vim=emacsclient --alternate-editor=vim

luap, 1 month ago

@l13u7anant @ovid
alias emacs=wine notepad.exe ?

ovid, 1 month ago

@luap @l13u7anant

Reminds me of years ago when a new developer (switching from C++ to #Perl) joined a team I was on. We asked him if he preferred #emacs or #vim. He replied, "nano."

He didn't last long.

holgerschurig, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

@ovid @luap @l13u7anant If you would make me switch from C++ to Perl, I wouldn't have lasted long either :-)

(Generally, these programming languages are used for very different problems to solve. So switching from one to the other - if the problem space stays identical - really sounds weird)

Oh and yes, I got the Nano thing :-)

ovid, 1 month ago

@holgerschurig @luap @l13u7anant Though I recall a time at the BBC where they concluded an unmaintainable Perl monolith was too slow and spent years rewriting it in C++. They not only created a new, unmaintainable monolith, but it was also too slow. Turns out no one profiled the original software to find out the real reasons it was slow.

isotopp, 1 month ago

@ovid MS-DOS md?

ovid, 1 month ago

@isotopp Nope. Just fat fingers. I haven't touched MS-DOS in decades.

isotopp, 1 month ago

@ovid

Yeah, I get that. I grew up on AmigaDOS and MS-DOS, and for a long time had csh aliases "md" and "rd" to go with "cd".