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sshine on Jan 7, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tell HN: Vim users, `:x` is like `:wq` but writes ...

I really like having to use both my hands to perform an irreversible change to disk. Those extra milliseconds let me think through what I’m doing.

xigoi on Jan 8, 2023 [–]

Irreversible? There's undo and version control.

sshine on Jan 8, 2023 | [–]

Yes, and file system snapshots and remote sync. But writing to a file, in the general case, is an irreversible action.

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