Your company lately hired a new bunch of extremely dedicated sysadmins. They feel that just watching computer screens is quite limiting (I mean, 60Hz refresh rate is just NOT enough), so they hooked up the CPU data bus to an DAC and play that on a speaker through the server room so that they can ...
I feel like tabs are only reasonable if you say that all tabs must be 4 spaces. Or all tabs must be 2 spaces. Or some rule like that, and the rule must be consistent for every possible editor.
@Doorknob I did it with tabs. My editors are decent. But then I opened up the file in an editor that thought tabs were 4-spaced... mass destruction of my neatly aligned comments.
@Geobits I did only use tabs for indentation. Here take this:
function () { // Sometimes I comment code. When I do, I often
if (some condition) { // comment it like this. Tabs can break this. This
Other code. // only looks nice with tabs at 4-space. Try viewing
} // it with tabs at 3-space; it will look
// disgusting.
}
That is perfectly lined up if tabs are 4-spaced.
It doesn't appear right to me.
But I will only comment like this rarely, such as for this class which requires me to. So for sane programs, I'll be using tabs. Like when I code in Java, I'll be using tabs (who sets tab width to anything other than 4 anyway?)
Hey; this class requires at least 80 lines of comments to 100 lines of code (lines of code can also be comment lines). This is the only way I figured I could get it to work. I find the professor's style to be unreadable.
function () {
// Sometimes I comment code. When I do, I often
// comment it like this. Tabs can break this. This
if (some condition) {
// only looks nice with tabs at 4-space. Try viewing
Other code.
// it with tabs at 3-space; it will look
Even more code
}
// disgusting.
}
This is what the professor's code looks like. I have trouble deciphering whether a line is a comment or whether a line is code. I like to be able to just read the code.
/**
* Sometimes I comment code. When I do, I often
* comment it like this. Tabs can break this. This
*/
function () {
// only looks nice with tabs at 4-space. Try viewing
if (some condition) {
// it with tabs at 3-space; it will look
Other code.
Even more code
}
// disgusting.
}
Ahh my eyes feel so good reading this.
Only the occasional comment in the source, clearly distinguished from the code itself. That's what I like.
Though probably also with comments to the right, but only if they're only for that line of code (or that line and the next when they're practically identical).
@Geobits That's why I like it. :D. Honestly though, I don't like the 4 space indents with the coding standard we have to adhere to, because the standard makes C unreadable. I like the reduced line wrapping.
Actually, I think that the best editor would be one where you don't even have to realize whether it's using tabs or spaces. It just does it's thing, but you expect the tab key to indent.
It should be obvious that PgUp = Home, PgDn = End. When I was working, my laptop switched the positions of Home/End and PgUp/PgDn, so since I don't use PgUp/PgDn, I remapped them to home.
I occasionally use PgUp/PgDn to scroll things like webpages (or a really long source code file) one whole page at a time. Probably among the least used keys on my keyboard though, too.
I wish my laptop had a pause / break key. Lots of IDEs map CTRL+BREAK to "cancel build"... I can't cancel builds on my laptop without manually navigating to the location.
It's an "ease of access" "feature". Turns the num-pad into a d-pad / buttons for a mouse. Naturally, you can choose whether that's for num-lock on or off.
I never use the numpad when numlock is off anyway, so now I can repurpose it.
@Doorknob Well, for instance, at work I only had one mouse, but one desktop and one laptop. I used mousekeys to open pandora to play music. And to pause music.
@AlexA. Consider what happens when I want to "cancel build". I don't have a PAUSE/BREAK button on my keyboard. I have to manually navigate there to do it.
My mom get's irritated if I'm showing her something I researched on the internet. She says I flash around and can't read anything. But I can. I don't see how she doesn't get Ctrl+Tab...
@AlexA. Visual Studio (the community edition FWIW)
Ctrl+Tab switches between tabs in both browsers and Notepad++...but differently. Somewhat aggravating for me. (Browsers switch from left to right, Notepad++ switches from most recent to latest.)
Yeah. Ctrl+W closes a tab, Ctrl+T opens a tab, Ctrl+N opens a new window, Ctrl+Shift+N opens an incognito window, Ctrl+Q frustratingly closes the entire application (or it did before, not sure now).
Ctrl+N and Ctrl+P to move between tabs, but I prefer my own bindings that I set up: Ctrl+H and Ctrl+L. (To match with back: Shift+H and forward: Shift+L.)
@El'endiaStarman Of course. Did you know about Win+Tab? On windows 7, it cycles applications with a fun perspective peek, on windows 8, it switched between apps, on windows 10, it switches to the screen where one can switch desktops (as in multiple desktops).
@AlexA. Yes, it is. But almost nobody uses it. Windows 7 one was 99% redundant with Alt-Tab, except it didn't actually switch (you could Win+Tab and let go and be back on the same window).
What I mean, is I can type Win+S (or just press Win on windows 10) and I can immediately search. Results are shown, then I can choose which application to run
@AlexA. Only its search feature sucks. I've tried to get it to work. It doesn't. The windows 8 / 10 searches not just by name of file, but by other data.
I really like dmenu with i3. I have it bound to mod+enter, and it pops up a tiiiny little bar at the top of your screen that searches your $PATH for programs to run. It narrows down the search as you type and has autocomplete.
CJam, 32 30 29 bytes
q~2@#2b\{)/(W%)1$0=|@]s:~}/:&
Try it online.
Test cases
$ cjam pancakes.cjam <<< '2 [1 1 2 2]'; echo
1
$ cjam pancakes.cjam <<< '2 [1 2 2 1]'; echo
0
How it works
q~ " N, L := eval(input()) ";
2@#2b ...
