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iainmerricktoday at 9:55 AM1 replyview on HN

Right, and then when you don't work on it for 6 or 12 months, you come back and find that now you don't understand it either.


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latexrtoday at 10:09 AM

Part of doing it well is adding comments as you add options. When I used vim, every line or block in the config had an accompanying comment explaining what it did, except if the config’s name was so obvious that a comment would just repeat it.

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