Well, the case is closed: Emacs is better than vi. Today Tumblr decided to release their database username and password along with other oauth-y credentials to the world. How did they manage such an impressive feat? Examining the code that was exposed shows:
i?php require_once('chorus/Utils.php'); i?php? Yes, that's supposed to be <?php. Here's how the scenario went:
- Manger: "You can't go home for the weekend until that patch is pushed all the way to production."
- Coder: "But... but... It's 6PM on a friday and I've already had 2 beers! It'll take hours to go through Q&A and staging!"
- Manager: "Ok cool... see you on Monday!"
- Coder: "Hmmm, bugger this... I'll just pop this fix straight up on live!"
- Coder runs command
vi index.phpand pressesito paste in the patch... accidentally hittingionce for each beer consumed, followed by:wq. - Coder goes to the pub
Pffft... Insert mode. Yet another reason to switch to Emacs.
An important thing to remember about the worst movie ever made is that we still call it a movie. That means there exists a lot lot worse. 
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Had he been using Emacs, it would probably just have had some value starting with ^ instead of i ;)
Oh by the way, after posting a comment the page just keeps jumping to the comment when trying to scroll. This is on iOS safari
Thanks for heads up! I’ll check that out.
Ouch. I got in trouble last week for committing vi commands in code. At least I didn’t do this!:wq
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