Creatures of habit

[smolloy]

I've been struggling hard to learn vi, and I've found that the biggest thing I have to overcome is the urge to hit ctrl-s every time I want to save, but just now I came back to a Word document I was editting, and I found :wq written at the end of the document where I intended to save it

It seems I can be taught. Now if only I could apply that knowledge at the right time

[Cryptofreak]

I hear ya on that one! My work has all Windows machines, and at home I have all Linux machines! So I find myself daily trying to mix and match commands and such! The biggest thing is "/" and "\" I find myself at work trying to get to a file by doing cd /foo.bar

[psic]

I sometimes have language problems: I type 'z' instead of 'y' and vice-versa, since I (usually) use the english qwerty keyboard layout at home, but many computers on which I work on use the slovenian keyboard layout (a bit like the german one, qwertz).

Oh, and I keep on looking for a pager in windows... I can't believe they still only have one desktop.

[smolloy]

Oh, and I keep on looking for a pager in windows... I can't believe they still only have one desktop.

That gets me all the time as well. I'm so used to having my windows all neatly organised that windows desktops seem overly cluttered and messy.

Cos of my travels, about once a year I have to switch from an American keyboard layout to either a UK or Norwegian one, and that causes me no end of hassle. Especially with the three extra characters on the Norwegian keyboard where ; [ and ' are on US models.

[AndrewB]

kb's cause hassle the other way around here
get the american one instead of a gb one, i get uber confused!


i also do stupid things like theat, stupid habits, like doin linux command on windows in college

[Cabhan]

Yeah, the / issue was there for my too. I aide for my HS Programming classes, and whenever I test someone's programs and enter a filepath, I end up using Unix slashes instead of Windows ones.

And commandline? I have to write an "ls" batchfile that runs "dir /p" for me because I instinctively use "ls".

[josolanes]

a weird one i've picked up from searching in nano (CTRL+W) is that when i try to search in Firefox i type these only to see my page disappear

[techieMoe]

I'll sometimes catch extraneous "xxxxx"s in my text files because I'll open it in another editor and try to delete characters... then remember I'm not in vi.

I set up my MS Windows box at work with Cygwin so that whenever I open up a command prompt I can still use "ls" instead of DIR. Otherwise I automatically default to "ls" and Windows balks at me.

[deltaflyer]

had something similar today, there was a minor fault on the network at the school where i work, so i dropped to a command prompt & blithely started typing in commands, was getting frustrated when nothing i typed worked. only realised i'd been typing in commands for linux when my colleague pointed it out

andy

[dylunio]

I use the dvorak kb layout at home and the querty(GB) at school, since I use more of the dvorak, when at school you'll see a lot of q instead of ' so I'll have words like:
Iqll
youqll
dogqs

and so forth in my work.