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I did something like that once too, a long time ago. And because of that I see syntax errors of such I’ll within seconds now, having learned once the hard way.


I also know how important the right tools are. I should’ve been using vi.


It amuses me to no end: in college I was a total emacs person, and now I’m a total vi person. There might be dozens of us!

I think both editors have their flaws, I just know the native vi keybindings better at the moment.


Either of them would've made the problem obvious!

This was about a million years ago. I had just installed a pirated copy of Windows XP (FCKGW-RHQQ2...) and was in the first quarter of my physics degree, taking a class in C. Different times....




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