• bleepbloopbop [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      I never got used to doing wq over a simple :x

      I get that you can write and quit separately, and I do it when needed, but 95% of the time, there’s no need

      • hangukdise@lemmy.ml
        8·
        1 year ago

        My muscle memory causes :wq to be typed without my conscient intervention

        • bleepbloopbop [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          what’s really dangerous is if you do a bunch of force quits in a row with :q! and then you start to get muscle memory for that and accidentally lose a whole document you were working on

          • taladar@sh.itjust.works
            3·
            1 year ago

            You mean you don’t have muscle memory to obsessively save every time you stop typing?

            • magikmw@lemm.ee
              3·
              1 year ago

              Software predeterminitism - If it were good code it would have saved itself.

            • bleepbloopbop [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              wellllllll

              I don’t think I’ve ever had to redo more than 15 mins of work due to this mistake, but it’s a dangerous road lol

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    281·
    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    For fans of the Vim text editor, the latest development code has landed support for the XDG Base Directory “XDG_BASE_DIR” specification.

    Rather than just dumping all configuration files / cache / data into the home directory folder, Vim can now respect the XDG Base Directory specification with regards to the directories such as for the XDG cache, configuration files, persistent data files, and state data files.

    Vim will continue to work fine for environments not setting the XDG paths / environment variables.

    The XDG_BASE_DIR support was merged this week after being under review and discussion since last month.

    This closes a 7 year old bug report requesting Vim follow XDG_CONFIG_HOME specifications or the APPDATA path on Windows.


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  • Wilmo Bones@lemmy.worldAkan
    6·
    1 year ago

    Holy moly great news. There’s hope for our /home after all. I think Firefox has an open bug thread or request thread for XDG Base Directory that’s like …20 years old?

    • Samueru@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259356

      20 indeed

      I use this script with librewolf, give it a try, simply place it in $HOME/.local/bin name it librewolf and export that location as first in $PATH:

      #!/bin/sh
      
      APPHOME="$XDG_DATA_HOME/librewolf/HOME"
      APPEXEC="$HOME/.local/opt/librewolf/librewolf" # Replace this with the path to librewolf
      
      # XDG Check
      if [ -z "$XDG_CACHE_HOME" ] || [ -z "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME" ] || [ -z "$XDG_DATA_HOME" ] || [ -z "$XDG_STATE_HOME" ]; then
      	echo "One or more XDG Base dir variables not defined, bailing out"; exit 1
      fi
      
      # MAKE FAKEHOME AND LINKS
      mkdir -p "$APPHOME/.local" "$XDG_DATA_HOME/pki" "$XDG_DATA_HOME/icons" 2>/dev/null
      [ ! -e "$APPHOME/.local/share" ] && ln -s "$XDG_DATA_HOME" "$APPHOME/.local/share"
      [ ! -e "$APPHOME/.local/state" ] && ln -s "$XDG_STATE_HOME" "$APPHOME/.local/state"
      [ ! -e "$APPHOME/.config" ] && ln -s "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME" "$APPHOME/.config"
      [ ! -e "$APPHOME/.cache" ] && ln -s "$XDG_CACHE_HOME" "$APPHOME/.cache"
      [ ! -e "$APPHOME/.icons" ] && ln -s "$XDG_DATA_HOME/icons" "$APPHOME/.icons" # Some apps have hardcoded ~/.icons path
      [ ! -e "$APPHOME/.pki" ] && ln -s "$XDG_DATA_HOME/pki" "$APPHOME/.pki" # Chromium/electron hardcode ~/.pki
      
      find "$APPHOME" -xtype l -delete
      for FILES in "$HOME"/*; do
          FILENAME=$(basename "$FILES")
          DEST="$APPHOME/$FILENAME"
          if [ ! -e "$DEST" ]; then
              ln -s "$FILES" "$DEST"
          fi
      done
      
      
      # START APP AT APPHOME
      HOME="$APPHOME" "$APPEXEC" "$@" || notify-send "App not found"
      
  • ani@endlesstalk.org
    220·
    1 year ago

    LMAO vim is such a garbage. GNU Emacs had XDG for years already. Do yourself a favor and switch to Emacs