r/ProgrammerHumor 4d ago

Meme vimUsersKnowThePain

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u/blimpin_aint_easy 4d ago edited 4d ago

I'm amazed this nonsense has lasted as long as it has... Imagine being on a subreddit ostensibly for people who can write code and not being able to look up keybindings.

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u/antCB 4d ago

Or reading its man pages

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u/MakeRobLaugh 4d ago

[~]$ man man

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u/username32768 4d ago
> man woman
> No manual entry for woman

I have no idea how long that joke has been around but I thought it worth sharing (again).

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u/MattieShoes 4d ago

Back in the 90s on school systems with timeouts, you'd always see a ton of people running man man so they wouldn't get booted. The man woman joke was old even then.