I’m the same way. I think it’s just a matter of being conditioned to manually save for the majority of my computing life.
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Ok here's a question I should have asked like way sooner.
In Ubuntu (and similar distros), is there a hotkey to immediately kill the process? Like CTRL-C but harsher.
I use a process manager like btop for this.
My PC has a dedicated key to kill all processes.
sudo poweroff?
If you’re using X11, you can use xkill: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xkill
You can bind it to a key in gnome/kde (not sure how they handle custom keybinds. Otherwise add a call to xbindkeys to your .bashrc or equivalent). It kills any window you want, responsive or not.
As for the terminal, I don’t think you can send SIGKILL, but ctrl + \ will result in a core dump if you’re using bash.
CTRL-C -- SIGINT
CTRL-\ -- SIGQUIT
CTRL-Z + kill -9 %1 -- SIGTSTP + SIGKILL
The same can be applied for editors as well
Auto-saving is the insurance against manually saving failing, which is the insurance against the computer or program failing.
It's insurances all the way down, yet I'm still let down when versioning overwrites my changes.
I just do a full rebuild. Saves all files.
I was never really aware I did this until I had to program something with hot reloading (I don't remember what) and it was so insufferable...
And now my pain is with rustfmt. Just because I saved before filling in the struct fields does not mean I want you to format the struct accordingly!!!
Intellij being a good guy amd autosaving every few seconds. No more worrying about crtl+s.
autosave is no good if you have live reload imo
Except the autosave in BBEdit. I trust that with my life. It’s never lost ANYTHING in 30 years.
i just store everything in google drive and let chance take over
Meanwhile, me over here with the self-doubt slamming ctrl-z
Excuse me i think you mean ctrl+c:w