alt Hacker NewsEvery time someone brings this up, I think "oh right, I could do that" and then immediately forget. Especially if you can type quickly, it's easier to just "drive straight ahead" with the command you want, than add another "mental branch" to interrupt the flow. For the same reason I'll often Ctrl+C and start again instead of trying to backspace and correct.
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adityaathalye • today at 8:50 AM
As an Emacs using degenerate, `M-.` is my friend. `!` is too awkward on the keyboard.
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squigz • today at 10:06 AM
As someone who can type rather quickly, I disagree. It can take some time to internalize, but once you do, it's much faster.
Same with Ctrl-C - once I got used to navigating by word instead of by character to correct things, it became much faster than starting over.
"sudo !!" is quite firmly burnt into my muscle memory, but the whole rest of the time when I type an exclamation mark I mean it literally, and I get annoyed when it turns into a syntax error of some variety.