Ben Halpern

Posted on Aug 3, 2018

If DEV were an acronym, what would it stand for?

#discuss #meta

Top comments (69)

Avalander • Aug 3 '18 • Edited

Do Everything Vetter

Don't Exit Vim

Mike • Aug 7 '18 • Edited

Don't Exit Vim has got to be my favourite so far.

Pro tip: ESC + :wq = exit vim

:w = Write
:q = Quit
:wq = Write buffer and quit

Avalander • Aug 7 '18

To be fair, any reference to Vim being hard to quit is always a cheap win.

Mike • Aug 7 '18

As a regular vim user, the cheapest win for me is emacs.

Ben Sinclair • Aug 20 '20

Pandademic • Jan 25 '22

agreed

Sasha Koss • Aug 10 '18

Another pro tip! There is a shortcut for :wq — :x

Mike • Aug 10 '18

Another pro tip for regex:

:%s/term/replacement/g

Adam Parkin • Aug 12 '18

I'll use something similar when I rebase (to squash) a series of commits in a git repo (vim's my editor for Git). If when presented with the list of commits you do:

:2,$s/pick/s/g

You'll squash all commits into a single commit in one fell swoop.

David Castro • Aug 10 '18

Another other pro tip, that's bound to just ZZ, withough a colon.

Richard Burk • Aug 4 '18

Don't Exit Vim

I'll buy that! 😂

kobayashi • Aug 7 '18

That's so good, sir :D.

Gergely Polonkai • Aug 4 '18

You can’t exit ViM, why ask not to do it?

Eljay-Adobe • Aug 4 '18

Vim is the Hotel California of editors.

Avalander • Aug 4 '18

Well, if the acronym would have been CEV, I could have said Can't Exit Vim; and Don't (know how to) Exit Vim seemed too far fetched, so Don't Exit Vim is the closest to what I wanted to say I could think of.

vishal • Aug 7 '18

I would say Do Explore Vim! I love Vim :)

Pandademic • Jan 25 '22

GO VIM!!

Kevin McGinn • Aug 3 '18

Developers, dEvelopers, deVelopers!

Eljay-Adobe • Aug 4 '18 • Edited

Okay, this one is my favorite so far!

Silly variant: Developers Evelopers Velopers

Christian Melgarejo • Aug 9 '18 • Edited

This is actually what ballmer says near the end of it, LOL

Andy Zhao (he/him) • Aug 3 '18 • Edited

Developers Engaging Virtually

Developers Exchanging Value

The second one feels a bit too business-y to me though...

Yechiel Kalmenson • Aug 3 '18

So... DEV Engaging Virtually? 😈

Shreyas Minocha • Aug 4 '18

GNU style recursion? ❤️

Joana Chavez • Aug 6 '18

The first is the best one to me!

Sung M. Kim • Aug 4 '18 • Edited

Make sure you have spaces between each word for the latter.
😉

Brian Greig • Aug 4 '18

Digitally
Empowered
Visionaries

Juan F Gonzalez • Aug 5 '18

This one deserves the prize so far.

Amin Arria • Aug 3 '18

Define Every Variable

Andrew Lucker • Aug 3 '18

Deprecating Every Vocation

Kim Arnett  • Aug 3 '18

developers emitting vomit
do evade viruses
works on my machine

Meghan (she/her) • Aug 3 '18

NPM has prepared me...

Don't Evaluate Void
Dinos Expanding Vocabulary
Dust Excites Vacuums
Devs Explaining Vividly
Deploying Enterprise VMs
Disk E: Volume
Disproportionate Experience Vouchers