Pitch me. I could switch, but it would help a great deal to understand more about why. I’m open to change, but not eager to change.

I’m very happy. I had the same early experience as you, but I kept with it. I’ve been using it several years now. When I’m forced back to vim, my fingers remember just enough, but I have to undo pretty often.

I kakoune instead.

APL is Ithkuil.

Tens and twenties…

I guess it’s time for a “mark this time so I can go back to it” feature, to reduce the need to pause. 🤷‍♂️

Kathryn Hahn winking.jpg

It looks like I have a great place to land if fzf ever starts to make my life difficult. Thank you!

Dark side of the How to Pick Up a Duck videos, I guess.

I’m annoyed when things don’t work. I’m even more annoyed when something can’t be made to work.

I find the first kind of annoyance much more ephemeral.

What does the cat drink?

I use copyq for this purpose. It doesn’t do exactly what you’ve asked for, but it solves a very similar underlying problem.

This is the reason I liked kakoune right away after I started using it: select, then act, and every movement is also a selection.

Winston? Does that mean the clock is striking thirteen?

I haven’t used it on a project for money, but I have some tests in shunit2 and that alone encourages me to extract code to functions.

deleted by creator

XKCD. Ten Thousand.

I hate!

Yes.

Computers don’t directly understand the code that humans write. Humans find it extremely difficult to directly write the code that computers understand.

Compiling is how we convert the code that humans write into the code that computers can run. (It’s more complicated than that, but that explanation is probably enough for now.)

Different computers understand different flavors of computer code. Each kind of computer can compile the same human code, but they produce the flavor of computer code specific to that kind of computer. That’s why you sometimes need to compile the human code on your computer: it’s easier for your computer to know how to compile human code than for a human to know how to compile human code for every kind of computer that exists now and might exist in the future. There are some common kinds of computer and many projects pre-compile human code so that you don’t have to, but that’s not always easy. Also, some people insist on compiling the code themself, rather than trust someone else to correctly compile the code for their computer.

As for how to compile, that can be complicated. When you find the human code (“source code”) for a software project, the README often gives you instructions for how to compile that project’s code. Many of the instructions look familiar, because they are similar between projects, but the detail can vary a lot from project to project. Moreover, different human programming languages have very different instructions for how to compile their flavor of human code into computer code.