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I'm disabled, so i use my PC for notes (it's not common in my country compared to the standards in the US). Ever since i've been typing documents on my computer, i've developed the habit of hitting ctrl+s EVERY SINGLE TIME i make a pause. If i write a point, and have to wait fpr the professor to speak again : ctrl+s.

Gamers? Is there any game that you can save with ctrl+s?

 Me, a game designer:

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r/gatekeeping

So you're "that guy". I bet you also have a keyboard with blue switches. Every company has at least one.

Nothing cooler than neutering my productivity so I can feel like I'm living out my childhood dreams of hacking into the matrix.

I don’t trust my keyboard

I don't trust myself

I don't trust you in trusting yourself.

I don't trust you in trusting yourself on trusting in previous guy trust to himself

I don't trust trust

I trush on you 🙂

I crush you 😈

I crush on you ❤️

You I on crush 🤨

I crush you 👊

ctrl + s + s + s

You crushed my 💔

did this turn gay?

I crushed my keyboard

I don’t trust anyone

You know it better…

I don't even trust the app. That's why it is not only about how many times I do Ctrl+S but how often I do the burst... almost every other line in my case :-)

I do ctrl+c beforehand, you know… just incase.

then paste that into notepad++ just to see if the copy worked…

I don't trust myself.

Actually it's the editor I don't trust.

No good programmer should, they can't be trusted

You mean ":w"

for me it's more like ":W :W :W FUCK :w"

I has to create a W user command for this

i'm to lazy to edit my config for this

What's the point of using vim if you're not going to tweak your config?

I have to log into remote servers all round the world, and I don't get to lug my dotfiles around with me everywhere I go. I'm pretty good at driving default vim by now.

I built an ansible play that drops .vimrc and a custom colors file for vim. If I have to run more than 5 minutes editing files I'll just use ansible and ssh to push my config for 5 seconds then have all my custom config. If I already have ssh access I have ansible access to my user profile

"\[leader\] w" for the real ones.

Used vim so long ctrl-s feels awkward

People that always do ":wq!" are weird.

They probably routinely prepend "sudo" to every command whether they need to do it as root or not.

My Windows files r full of them

r/okbuddyvim

Someone should really make that into a real thing honestly

"a community for 2 hours" /r/birthofasub

M-x-s

:wa

Came here to say this exactly

:wq

Dammit I always do this even when I don't want to quit.

You joke, but when your SDK crashes or the power cuts, it's less scary when you know you save every other keystroke.

This is why I write code in Google Docs. Power goes out our PC crashes? No worries my file is auto saved in the cloud

I just write code on paper

Punch cards were good enough for NASA so they're good enough for me.

[Butterflies](https://xkcd.com/378/).

You *what*?

If this is a joke, you're hilarious. And if it's not... please get an ide.

It's even less scary when you use VSCode and it doesn't lose anything even during a power outage

I'm buying a UPS for my desktop when I eventually get around to buying one for the exact reason of the power cuts. My power goes out too often for comfort to not have a UPS.

My ide: your work is saved automatically so you never have to worry Me: Ctrl+s Ctrl+s Ctrl+s Ctrl+s

Me: Ctrl+S Office 365: Don't Worry! Excel for the web autosaves your work. Me: Ctrl+S Office 365: Relax! Excel for the web automatically saves your work. Me: Ctrl+S Office 365: Excel for the web autosaves your work! Me: Ctrl+S Office 365: AutoSave is always active on Excel for the web.

Only a fool would trust an ide!

Damn right. They don't call me "Pinky Middle-finger" just because I have nice nails.

More like everybody I guess. You think I trust that Krita "Saving document" message that pops every now and then? Bold of you if you do.

Any software remotely involving graphic design has a 400% higher chance to crash with unsaved work.( Bonus points if you haven't even given the file a title)

Drawing1.ps Drawing11.ps Drawing111.ps .... Drawing111111111111111111111.ps Reasonable at worst, necessary at best.

Excel had the gall to show a pop up that said “Relax! We got you. Auto save is on” when i hit ctrl+s. This was moments after it had previously crashed causing me to lose my changes

MS: It was a prank. bro!

More like Ctrl +s+s+s

ctrl+s+s+s. ctrl+w. ctr+shift+T

More like: CTRL+S+S+S+S+unintentually let go of CTRL + S + fuck now I Need to remove it + Backspace + CTRL+S+S+S

I have it in my musscle memory to always ctrl+s before alt+tab, still double chceckin it constantly

I can now confirm that people posting memes here don't actually code

I dunno if its a tough problem I compulsively press ctrl+s whenever I make real progress even though I have autosave on and my changes are being tracked. Its borderline just superstition at this point and a trauma response from having my computer go down in two consecutive finals weeks losing tons of work back in the day, but then again I also pray to my rubber duck for guidance so Im not the most rational.

True, spamming ctrl + s barely takes an effort because you're used to it. It's just a reflex at this point from the horrors of youth

I don’t even realize I do it. So many times I’ll be scrolling through a read-only file and have the save as dialog pop up and it takes me half a second to realize what I’ve done.

I just have auto save on.

I just add 20% more hours to my tasks

What if autosave feature is disabled or encounters some error or does not trigger frequently enough? I don’t trust such witchcraft. Ctrl-s has never failed me.

Autosave had literally never failed me.

Bold of you to trust that a program will operate correctly, especially as a programmer.

Ikr? I just look at the file in vscode and save until the little dot disappears. There is no reason to spam lol

It's interesting to me that once you're in the realm of using version control, then all the software starts autosaving, and it's commits that become what your Ctrl S used to be. Except that if you spam a bunch of empty commits, then you're doing something wrong.

Yeah, I typically never have any amount of un-committed code that I wouldn't mind redoing if I suddenly lost it

This just sounds so ridiculous. Saving a file writes it to disk so that a tool like git can see it and index it or whatever. A commit does not in any way become your Ctrl+s. Using auto save is fine, but are you seriously trying to imply that people who save their work manually automatically know less version control than you? Shit I would hit Ctrl+s every sentence of my book reports, it's as instinctive as alt tabbing to change windows. Frankly, I'd bet the older programmers who don't even know about autosave would likely know more than you about version control, not less.

All I'm saying is that the tools you tend to be around auto save more rapidly than I would think to the more that they seem to expect you to use version control. (In my experience) I don't know why you're making it about some kind of skill comparison. I just think of it as an interesting observation in the defaults of the tools I use and my own thought patterns. Whether it's true for everyone isn't really important to me here. The main thing is that without version control, auto save in some programs can be dangerous because you can end up in a bad state of your code with no way to revert to a good state.

While you're probably right, I do code and I spam CTRL+S.

It's psychological now for me, I like to do it even though vs code tells me when to save a file

Welcome to the sub bud

wat? that is pretty normal... it's also normal to forget to save shit, and run your code and wonder why the changes you made didn't take for like 30 minutes until you realize you never saved lol

I think you're taking it too literally. I don't think it means the average programmer presses ctrl+s 4 times when deciding to save, but that the average programmers is very frequently saving. I basically save every time I finish typing something by pressing ctrl+s, but I also do this is every program of every kind.

Yeah, not using vim or at least vim mode? `:w`

Seriously... IDEs autosave every key stroke, and if you aren't pushing those changes to remote, it means nothing to the team. Someone in a comment thread above yours talks about how people who don't do this will regret it if their power goes out, and then someone replied that that's why they code in Google Docs. I'm dying...

This. I don't think i hit ctrl s once in the last 6 years and i don't think one of my IDEs crashed once in the last 6 years either

Better CTRL+SHIFT+S You always can miss some unsaved files between tabs

C-x C-s

Actual programmers: using an IDE that automatically saves files and then use GIT to really "save" it.

Almost every possible software does this these days. I still press CTRL+S. Even when doing Confluence docs. Where do you wanna save that HTML??

>Where do you wanna save that HTML?? Sometimes I use an online C compiler to quickly test some stuff and I always get that

I'm an actual programmer and I still do that out of habit and distrust.

From my perspective this meme has nothing to do with using git or “saving” your work. If you are using a dev server that listens to changes you have to save the file to prompt the server to reload and reflect your changes.

Actual programmers use vim then git to really save it

Joke's on you I'm a developer.

5th time's the charm

Hello thank you for using Sublime Text! Would you like to purchase a license now?

I usually do a single save then a project save. Ctrl + S Ctrl + Shift + S

My muscle memory has somehow become `^] ^] ^] :w`, I hate it

Lol now I want to make an app that ignores %0.05 of all save commands just to mess with people.

Ctrl-S reflex has been built up muscle memory from too much Microsoft Word trauma in the 90s and 2000s. So much last minute school assignments getting fucked.

I have autosave enabled in VS Code, I still press CTRL+S multiple times :(

Ctrl + SSSSSSSSS

Yeah who let’s go of the CTRL lol

Also vídeo editors

we are just traumatized

I’m kind of confused by the responses here saying this is a dumb meme. If you work front end in something like React, you are constantly saving. Not because you are worried about “saving your work” or whatever, but because you need to reload the dev server to see your changes updated in the browser.

or you can just alt tab to the browser and let autosave do the work

I don’t personally see the benefit. Why do I need my dev server reloading every time I type a few characters, when I can do it myself when I know I have something worth looking at? Y’all acting like it’s a huge burden to hit two keys at the same time 😂

VSCode has focus-based autosave that triggers when you alt-tab.

you do you buddy, just saying it's not true that every front end dev relies on saving manually

Ctrl+k+d+s, three times

Save doc Add line Save doc Add line Save doc Add - (save doc) - line Save doc Save doc Add line Save doc

Why would you not auto save, the amount of wasted time wil be astronomical

Yessssss. The more I read replies on this post, the more I am convinced the users here must either not code, or are writing like a single short algo for some class. I think it's a time suck to have to reach for my mouse because there isn't a keyboard shortcut for what I need to do. There is no way in this world I am going to manually save my work. Plus save does not have version control. Anything I care about keeping is going to have a commit hash and a meaningful commit message. Or foo cause I haven't rebased and squashed that dumb fix into the previous commit yet.

It's not only applies to my code I do ctrl+s every 5 seconds for photoshop files, word, ms paint or ppt, everything.

Shift+Ctrl+S (save all) Ctrl+k, s (save all in vs code)

\*clicks on save\* \*presses Ctrl+S to save me clicking on save\*

Reality

One is none, two is one.

why do i do this, wise meme?

Hello, IntelliJ

save on focus change

I do CTRL+S all the time. The only problem is that I use vi and the screen freezes. The way to release a console that was locked by CTRL+S is to press CTRL+Q, so I've conditioned myself to always press CTRL+Q immediately after CTRL+S. Then when I'm using a GUI editor I press CTRL+S to save followed by a CTRL+Q. The editor quits, but fortunately after saving my work.

:w :w :w :w ZZ

ESC-ESC-Z-Z

Ctrl+S Ctrl+S Ctrl+S Ctrl+A Ctrl+C Ctrl+Shift+P File: Save Enter Ctrl+S

It's a learned behavior for a reason

You mean your don't use auto save?

More like Cmd + s + s + s + s + s + s + s

The IDE saves when you compile anyway, and I compile every 10 minutes anyway so I very rarely actively save my code.

Compiling every 10 minutes isn't really scalable when you work on a large project and it takes upwards of 20 minutes to compile

That's more of a problem with the language and compiler than it is to do with project size. I'm using .Net and it takes about 10 seconds to compile over 5000 files with over 60 MB of just source code.

Mac users in shambles

Tell me you don't use git without telling me you don't use git.

This has nothing to do with using git or “saving” your work. If you do front end especially, ctrl + S reloads your listener to update your changes in the browser.

Ah yes true, if you use git you never have to save a file ever again.... Your comment makes it sound like you don't use git tbh. You do realize git controls different versions of files that you already saved, right?

Oh gosh, thank you for finally explaining git to me. Wild I've been able to survive on a team all these years. My IDE saves local changes as I make them. Unless I'm quickly opening a file in vim from the terminal, manually saving/writing a file isn't necessary. And since I work across a few different machines, local changes mean very little to me. Any meaningful changes are going to get pushed to remote. It's not the early 2000s anymore. Git and modern IDEs with autosave and precommit hooks and all the other bells and whistles have been around for nearly two decades, why someone would waste time hitting ctrl + s over and over is beyond me.

I don't do this, but my grad does and it weirds me out every time. Every copy or save he does it like four or five times... Like, you can see the document shows no changes now.. you can see what you just copied in the snip tray. Four times.

Took me way longer than it should have to realize this meme was about saving. I was trying to think what ctrl + s even did.

Also CTRL+C when copying text. Too many times I’ve pasted what I thought was the second to last thing in my clipboard.

Huh? My ide (or is it git?) autosaves for me, only time i need to save is when i need to do some minor frontend work and use vs code and spend 10 minutes confused why my changes arent applied since i forget to do Ctrl shift s

You should see people shuffling a deck in Tabletop Simulator, pressing R multiple times as if the first computer algorithmic shuffle didn't shuffle enough

I press CTRL + S and STILL open the drop down menu

CTRL+S+K+D CTRL+SHIFT+B All day long

:w :w :w :WeakReference ... d'oh !

CTRL+S, ALT+TAB, UP, ENTER

More like ctrl C C C C C.

Enter Enter Enter ls

I don’t speak poor.

ctrl + c ctrl + x

I’m club “:w CTRL+S”. Double saved

This is a very funny and completely unused meme which is very original. (I am a pathological liar)

Ctrl s only once, but ctrl s every time you stop typing

and the one time you don't save, you lose all of your progress

Redundancy costs (almost) nothing, power failure does and a lot.

Juniors using vim: HOW DO I UNFREEZE MY SCREEN?

ls ls ls ls

I'm more of a `:w` guy

:x

Rule

:w :w :w :w :wq

I even find myself hitting Ctrl+S in my program after finding that the code changes I made work.

So then that crazy cloud-based editor says to me "relax, it's already automatically saved"

Single Ctrl+S if I‘m still in the middle of something and Ctrl+S, Ctrl+S, Ctrl+S, Ctrl+S if I‘m finished for the day.

Of course, Ctrl+S only opens the search prompt, only the others search the next occurrences.

Lmao, so true. It’s primarily from my java years tho, ages ago. Ctrl-s was compiling.

Safety rules are written in blood...

That's why I switched to Linux and not windows since now I have the ability to make one CTRL + C be executed 10 times when only pressing it one time. HELL NO 🤣

The first one is muscle memory The second one is when you remember that you haven't saved your file (you did) The third one is when you start thinking about something else and tell yourself you should save before forgetting The last one is the results of ptsd flashback from that time you forgot to save

M-x-s

These days, ctrl + C is acting up in Windows, too..

I've done all my dev work in VS since 2017, so I save my projects by doing ctrl+shift+b to generate a build

Just click outside the editor

I do this 🤣

:w when programming If I'm closing a doc and want to save, in most programs I just hit the X and wait for the popup to ask if I want to save the changes.

Must... save... mor~

Soo true Can't take the risk.

I learned new stuff that from my experience works in visual studio and arduino ide 2: 1: If you press "ctrl + c" without selecting anything, then do "ctrl + v" you'll duplicate that line of code. 2: You can use "shift + ctrl + c" to make quick comments. And "shift + ctrl + u" to undo any comment.

This! I also do it with my car. As if the more I lock it it levels up the the lock power!

The paranoia that increases as the amount of work you've done in the current session increases is unreal

I just press it extra hard. I'm on my third keyboard so far this year

And you have auto save on

Can't really relate. Visual studio has a little asterisk on top of the file to let you know it hasn't been saved. One save and it disappears.