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  • not necessarily. you could also have done a yank-paste, or a repeated action, or had a command output into the buffer.

    it’s a good habit to always leave the editor in normal mode between actions, because that makes for a cleaner edit history with smaller changesets in the undo tree.

    …vim is sort of like driving stick in that way.










  • the roslagsbanan commuter rail is the only actively used 2 ft 11 332 in railway in the world.

    …honestly, with a wikipedia article that extensive it hardly qualifies as “obscure”.

    so, bonus:

    the siljan area of sweden has a history of building observation towers:


    the tower in the black-and-white photo, which started this trend, was financed by a man who made a fortune making and selling multiplication books. basically like books of logarithm tables but only for multiplication. 1×1 to 9999×9999.

    also that entire area is europe’s largest meteorite crater: