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

Ben Halpern on August 03, 2018

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

Michael Lee 🍕 • Aug 3 '18

Doing EVerything

Developers Eating Views

Developers Encouraging Views

Developers Encouraging Values

Did Everybody View

Doesn't Entice Violence

Developer Encouraging Values

Developer Excited Values

Developer Excellence Vlogs

Dev Edited Vlogs

Does Everybody Vim

Jesse M. Holmes • Aug 3 '18

Indeed, everyone does!

Sung M. Kim • Aug 4 '18 • Edited

1st one

𝔻𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕝𝕠𝕡𝕖𝕣𝕤 === 𝕎𝕚𝕟!

Explanation

𝔻 evelopers
𝔼 qual Win (a synonym for
𝕍 ictory).

Kinda stretching the meaning here 😝

2nd one

𝔻𝕠𝕟'𝕥 𝔼𝕧𝕖𝕣 𝕍𝕠𝕞𝕚𝕥

Explanation

Make sure you hold it after having a few drinks 🥃 at a conference/meetup.

Please be respectful of others 🙇

Casey Brooks • Aug 3 '18

Developers, Entrepreneurs, and Velociraptors

Thomas H Jones II • Aug 4 '18

Any mention of velociraptors is worth a thumbs-up!

I need to start putting "velociraptor(s)" in any presentations that I'd normally put "velocity" into: see if the PHBs notice it or not (or at least mention it).