OMG

20 january 2022 will forever be marked as the day I discovered CTRL-J in Notepad++

no more editing out other people's fucking hard returns and badly made PDFs

@MiG Language!

english ;)

Oh

In general SE is no swearing

It's not always enforced but we got into trouble a few times...

So I just Steve Rogers it 😁

:facepalm:

I make a very strong distinction between racism, insults and anything else that negatively affects or portrays someone, but outside of that I feel that humanity doesn't need limitations... it's always very weird looking at US TV programs and people actually being censored (stare at that single word for a moment will ya) and then seeing NL TV (and society in general) work just fine without that...

Its the rules ;)

yes yes, we must obey zee jackboots :P

bizarre isn't it? you're allowed to own and fire a minigun, but saying 'fuck' on TV is not... I suppose the definition of dangerous differs in different parts of the world :x

@MiG tbh, that goes back to Jeff's time

Jeff?

@MiG Atwood

(Co founder of stack exchange and imo resposible for a lot of the culture of the network)

I haven't met Jeff yet I'm afraid (:

He hasn't been active in years

his profile says "more than a week"... I suppose technically that's true then :D

Active active :D

Jeff used to be part of the development, CM, SRE .... basically everything

well, I assume like most things on the interweb this was started by two guys in a basement/attic/bedroom, and I assume he's one of them? :)

vaguely

Jeff Atwood?

:D

@MiG For the uninformed... What does that do?

@CanadianLuke "join lines" - adds spaces to the end of the selected lines, then removes their carriage returns

CTRL-J makes that a single line, quite useful when putting together lots of information from different documents :)

does it work over multiple lines?

in vim you can hit J in normal mode to join the next line to current

but you can also get it to work on multiple lines with visual select or a prefix