• @[email protected]
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      47 months ago

      Have you tried GUI text editors? They’re like the CLI ones, just from this millennium. We’re no longer etching runes into rocks any more either.

        • @[email protected]
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          17 months ago

          Sometimes it’s not so easy to fire up a GUI, like when you ssh into another machine.

          CLI text editors have their specific use cases. For all other cases GUI ones (Kate, VSCode,…) exist.

          • nickwitha_k (he/him)
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            17 months ago

            CLI text editors have their specific use cases.

            Couldn’t agree more. My use cases tend to be:

            • text editor
            • note taking
            • IDE
            • config editor
            • log viewer
            • adhoc data prep
            • json viewer

            EMACS users sometimes add web browser and email client, among other things but, that’s a bit further than I go. The perf for either of the main two blows nearly any GUI editor out of the water and being able to pipe stdout/stderr to them is just the wonderful cherry on top.

        • @[email protected]
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          -27 months ago

          Hopefully tongue-in-cheek.

          No.

          Because sure. Microsoft Word is the best IDE.

          Learn the difference between a word processor and a text editor.

          • caseyweederman
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            57 months ago

            Guess you’re not up on your memes. Frightfully sorry for responding to what I assumed was a meme answer with a meme answer.

    • caseyweederman
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      17 months ago

      Accurate. The keyboard shortcuts just make sense and it’s full of features from this millennia. Like control click for multi cursor, automatic syntax highlighting, and automatic lint indicators.