Reply to Just wrote an exceptionally long issue in Github and as I was finishing it, my finger grazed what I believe to be the "escape" key and it just disappeared. on Thu, 22 Oct 2026 19:20:18 GMT

tshirtman@mas.to — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 19:20:18 GMT

@mcc @gsuberland That sounds like a neat idea actually, sometimes when i type something long i decide actually would rather edit this in vim, so i copy, edit there, and copy back when i'm done, which creates the backup as a side effect, (i've been burned by youtube comments a lot too, typing anything consequential in there is really a dangerous life), but it's still not an ingrained reflex, i think a plugin that would see it's getting long (in size and time spent) and nudge me in that direction would be really useful.

Reply to Just wrote an exceptionally long issue in Github and as I was finishing it, my finger grazed what I believe to be the "escape" key and it just disappeared. on Thu, 22 Oct 2026 19:16:10 GMT

mcc@mastodon.social — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 19:16:10 GMT

@tshirtman @gsuberland Every woman I have ever dated has tried to convince me to install one of those plugins that autostores every you type in to disk. But I'm always like "maybe it will never happen again". And I am never right.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Reply to Just wrote an exceptionally long issue in Github and as I was finishing it, my finger grazed what I believe to be the "escape" key and it just disappeared. on Thu, 22 Oct 2026 19:04:27 GMT</h1> <p>gsuberland@chaos.social — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 19:04:27 GMT</p> <p><span><a href="/user/mcc%40mastodon.social">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> but yeah the flow itself sucks hard.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Reply to Just wrote an exceptionally long issue in Github and as I was finishing it, my finger grazed what I believe to be the "escape" key and it just disappeared. on Thu, 22 Oct 2026 19:04:12 GMT</h1> <p>gsuberland@chaos.social — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 19:04:12 GMT</p> <p><span><a href="/user/mcc%40mastodon.social">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> you may be able to recover it by strings'ing the process memory. I have done this before.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Reply to Just wrote an exceptionally long issue in Github and as I was finishing it, my finger grazed what I believe to be the "escape" key and it just disappeared. on Thu, 22 Oct 2026 19:00:04 GMT</h1> <p>mcc@mastodon.social — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 19:00:04 GMT</p> <p><span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@vl_tone">@<span>vl_tone</span></a></span> i often do this as well… this time… i didn't </p> </article> <article> <h1>Reply to Just wrote an exceptionally long issue in Github and as I was finishing it, my finger grazed what I believe to be the "escape" key and it just disappeared. on Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:57:38 GMT</h1> <p>tshirtman@mas.to — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:57:38 GMT</p> <p><span><a href="/user/mcc%40mastodon.social">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> ugh, that's terrible, it's been some time i didn't have that, but i used to dump /proc/kcore and strings|grep the content for my stuff if i cared enough about it, it did work a few times. (then needed some cleanup, but at least, that can be automated.</p><p>the ratio of memory to available disk space was different back then though.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Reply to Just wrote an exceptionally long issue in Github and as I was finishing it, my finger grazed what I believe to be the "escape" key and it just disappeared. on Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:35:14 GMT</h1> <p>coltn@mastodon.social — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:35:14 GMT</p> <p><span><a href="/user/dalias%40hachyderm.io">@<span>dalias</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/mcc%40mastodon.social">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> i feel like from using modal editors, i've trained myself to spam escape all the time between thoughts -- ugh this is a constant struggle in web interfaces these days.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Reply to Just wrote an exceptionally long issue in Github and as I was finishing it, my finger grazed what I believe to be the "escape" key and it just disappeared. on Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:33:59 GMT</h1> <p>vl_tone@mastodon.social — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:33:59 GMT</p> <p><span><a href="/user/mcc%40mastodon.social">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> I'm so traumatized by previous experiences of losing long posts in Web forms that I tend to regularly copy the text to the clipboard when writing in a form, especially before hitting "Send".</p> </article> <article> <h1>Reply to Just wrote an exceptionally long issue in Github and as I was finishing it, my finger grazed what I believe to be the "escape" key and it just disappeared. on Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:28:48 GMT</h1> <p>antonius@phpc.social — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:28:48 GMT</p> <p><span><a href="/user/mcc%40mastodon.social">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> a lot of modals will do this to me if I have the gall to drag the mouse outside of the modal box while selecting text, infuriating!</p> </article> <article> <h1>Reply to Just wrote an exceptionally long issue in Github and as I was finishing it, my finger grazed what I believe to be the "escape" key and it just disappeared. on Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:22:08 GMT</h1> <p>dalias@hachyderm.io — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:22:08 GMT</p> <p><span><a href="https://meow.social/@codecat">@<span>codecat</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/mcc%40mastodon.social">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> Yeah one of the ways to open the "new issue" workflow just puts a popup in front of whatever you're doing. There's another way to get to it that's always full-page, or you can (I think; I avoid github when possible so I haven't done it in a while) press something to switch to full-page once you're on the pop-up.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Reply to Just wrote an exceptionally long issue in Github and as I was finishing it, my finger grazed what I believe to be the "escape" key and it just disappeared. on Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:19:47 GMT</h1> <p>dalias@hachyderm.io — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:19:47 GMT</p> <p><span><a href="/user/mcc%40mastodon.social">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> I'm going to want a Firefox addon to fix Mastodon 5 if it's not fixed before it ships and gets adopted by instances...</p> </article> <article> <h1>Reply to Just wrote an exceptionally long issue in Github and as I was finishing it, my finger grazed what I believe to be the "escape" key and it just disappeared. on Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:19:22 GMT</h1> <p>cypnk@masto.hackers.town — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:19:22 GMT</p> <p><span><a href="/user/mcc%40mastodon.social">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> I was typing a long-winded (yet completely justified) email in Hotmail back in 1999, when the page refreshed and lost my email (and my wind dagnamit!)</p><p>Never trusted web forms ever again</p><p>I've been writing longer stuff to Notepad or something with copious use of Ctrl + S before pasting it to whatever web form I'm about to use</p> </article> <article> <h1>Reply to Just wrote an exceptionally long issue in Github and as I was finishing it, my finger grazed what I believe to be the "escape" key and it just disappeared. on Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:17:33 GMT</h1> <p>mcc@mastodon.social — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:17:33 GMT</p> <p><span><a href="/user/dalias%40hachyderm.io">@<span>dalias</span></a></span> I do this literally every time I remember, literally for this reason, but this time I forgot</p><p>(I also refuse to use Mastodon 5 for the same reason. According to Mastodon devs Mastodon 5 doesn't even have this problem. But due to Github, I have trauma)</p> </article> <article> <h1>Reply to Just wrote an exceptionally long issue in Github and as I was finishing it, my finger grazed what I believe to be the "escape" key and it just disappeared. on Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:15:55 GMT</h1> <p>codecat@meow.social — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:15:55 GMT</p> <p><span><a href="/user/dalias%40hachyderm.io">@<span>dalias</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/mcc%40mastodon.social">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> There's a popup now? I haven't seen it yet luckily.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Reply to Just wrote an exceptionally long issue in Github and as I was finishing it, my finger grazed what I believe to be the "escape" key and it just disappeared. on Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:14:48 GMT</h1> <p>latinabad@mastodon.social — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:14:48 GMT</p> <p><span><a href="/user/mcc%40mastodon.social">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> that sucks its so annoying when it happens</p> </article> <article> <h1>Reply to Just wrote an exceptionally long issue in Github and as I was finishing it, my finger grazed what I believe to be the "escape" key and it just disappeared. on Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:13:33 GMT</h1> <p>novyx@mastodon.social — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:13:33 GMT</p> <p><span><a href="/user/mcc%40mastodon.social">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> If only you could be so lucky.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Reply to Just wrote an exceptionally long issue in Github and as I was finishing it, my finger grazed what I believe to be the "escape" key and it just disappeared. on Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:13:32 GMT</h1> <p>dalias@hachyderm.io — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:13:32 GMT</p> <p><span><a href="/user/mcc%40mastodon.social">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> Yeah, it's really bad. I always go to the full-page issue compose UI rather than the pop-up one they're trying to get us to use now, precisely because the pop-up one is unsafe like that,</p> </article> </main></body></html>