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   Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com) (mattl@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jul-2025 08:20:39 JST Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com)

   One thing I really like about #BBEdit -- it doesn't bug me to save stuff.

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     Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com) (mattl@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jul-2025 08:43:35 JST Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com)

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     • Martin Owens :inkscape:

     @doctormo Without your hat you really are unrecognizable.

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     Martin Owens :inkscape: (doctormo@floss.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jul-2025 08:43:37 JST Martin Owens :inkscape:

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     @mattl

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     Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com) (mattl@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jul-2025 09:03:54 JST Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com)

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     • Adam Katz

     @adamhotep (obviously it’s very hard to close vim)

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     Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com) (mattl@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jul-2025 09:03:55 JST Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com)

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     • Adam Katz

     @adamhotep but if you close it you lose all that?

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     Adam Katz (adamhotep@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jul-2025 09:03:56 JST Adam Katz

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     @mattl vim puts swap files for unnamed files in the working directory (typically ~ if you tend to launch gvim via keyboard shortcut) named .swp then decrementing: .swo, n, m, l, k, etc. I'm not sure what happens after .swa (.swz?), but I do currently have a ~/.swa on one of my systems...

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     Adam Katz (adamhotep@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jul-2025 09:17:10 JST Adam Katz

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     @mattl meh, it's hard to close vi while vim figures out you're trying to exit and literally tells you to Type :qa and press <Enter> to exit Vim, but that's not to say the meme isn't fantastic.

     Yes, it cleans up after itself if you exit without killing it.

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     Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com) (mattl@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jul-2025 09:17:10 JST Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com)

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     • Adam Katz

     @adamhotep I'd like to play with vim on an Amiga sometime, to get the feel for the original use of it.

     The nice thing about BBEdit is that by default it keeps all those buffers for me so I don't have to remember them.

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     Adam Katz (adamhotep@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jul-2025 11:04:03 JST Adam Katz

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     @mattl vim does that too. The only complication is when the file hasn't yet been saved. Same as all those unnamed files you have from your auto-saves.

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     Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com) (mattl@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jul-2025 11:04:03 JST Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com)

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     • Adam Katz

     @adamhotep Apparently they don’t last if you close vim?