Why type "git" and walk away? Seems like an ultra edge case that deserves whatever ill comes from it.
Git git git git git
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Re: Git git git git git
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I use vimperator, so the only program I use a lot which still doesn't recognize ctrl+w is Hexchat. My friends have gotten used to see me part the channel and rejoin shortly after, cursing my fingers.
Hexchat closing on C-w is such a pain! It can't be scripted away either because it's hardcoded in the source. I haven't looked into this for some time but there does seem to have been some updates. https://github.com/hexchat/hexchat/issues/397
That sounds like the kind of thing that would be really easy to maintain your own fork for...
Re: Git git git git git
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In other words ctrl-w is "kill," which is what most people would think of as "cut," and ctrl-y is "yank," which is what most people would think of as "paste."
And Vimmers would think of yank as copy or kill save
That's funny. Never thought about that. I guess Emacs people think of it as yanking from the clipboard to the document, and Vim people think of it as yanking from the document into the clipboard.
Re: Git git git git git
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In the context of software it seems like the word has pretty broadly adopted the meaning of "side-effect free". It's even made it to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idempotence#Computer_science_m... One notable example: Stripe's "idempotency keys": https://stripe.com/blog/idempotency
I disagree that this is common the world of software, and I disagree that the WP article that you linked makes that claim. I humbly suggest that you might benefit from reading that article more carefully.
You're right, I meant to summarize more along the lines that calling something multiple times doesn't cause more than one set of side effects. Unfortunately too late to edit by the time I re-read it!