I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
It doesn't give me feedback as a message, but I have the PASTE option in my statusbar so it's always visible.
My config has F2 - whitespace and 80-column hint, F3 - paste mode, F4 -indentlines. This is because They're otherwise unused functions between F1 (which is often shadowed by the terminal emulator) and F5 (which is conventionally for debugging).
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!to toggle the state of an option, so I have this:It doesn't give me feedback as a message, but I have the PASTE option in my statusbar so it's always visible.
My config has F2 - whitespace and 80-column hint, F3 - paste mode, F4 -indentlines. This is because They're otherwise unused functions between F1 (which is often shadowed by the terminal emulator) and F5 (which is conventionally for debugging).
Did not know this! Thank you.
I'm using the newer macs that come w/ a touchbar. I rarely have F2, F3 etc at my fingertips. Will come back to this if I use a different machine.