CTRL+S to undo, please!

Right, you know this was supposed to be a lifestyle blog? I guess programming is a lifestyle. Anyway, I wanted to take a note of this, so let’s cover it, before I release it from my mind. And before that, I wanted to have meticulous mirrors of all linked content. Yeah, that’s not happening. Not anytime soon, anyway.

I’ll cut it short. I thought my programming ability might get amplified, if I use the latest text editor. When I was in uni, the cool kids used Sublime (now called Sublime Text). I’ve been told that Zed is all the rage nowadays. Well, that’s what I installed. And man, nowadays, I am forced back to Zed, because VSCode is so slow (whose idea was it to build it on top of electron?). It’s literally painful for me to use it, never mind that it enrages me. But nowadays, I can successfully save a document using Zed. Yes, you read it correctly. Zed is able to successfully save a file, phew. Jerry, isn’t it a given, that a text editor saves files? That’s what I thought.

Anyway, I couldn’t believe that it’s somehow my fault, so I filed a git issue: Lo and behold, I’m not crazy, it really doesn’t work. I’m not programmer enough to explain what on Earth was going on. Cmake is a build tool, that we use, because we’re using legacy operating systems and refuse to move on. Terry Davis didn’t need a build tool in TempleOS. But I digress. The point here is, Zed undid all changes when I tried to save, instead of saving. And it was a bug.

Keep programming.