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Me giving advice about text editors (lemmy.world)
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[–] woelkchen 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] woelkchen 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week 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] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hopefully tongue-in-cheek.
Because sure. Microsoft Word is the best IDE.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I personally prefer running wordpad with WINE, as I can’t afford an office subscription.

[–] woelkchen -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hopefully tongue-in-cheek.

No.

Because sure. Microsoft Word is the best IDE.

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I refuse to use any GUI until people stop pronouncing it as gooey.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Well now I'm going to pronounce it gooey even harder!

[–] prime_number_314159 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"Graphical UI" it is

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

That's "graphical oowey", right? /s

I generally just say the letters; the amount of shit I get for saying gee en you...is not actually that much because I usually don't interact with coding nerds via voice, only text, but if I did they would be livid

Edit: For some reason I try to pronounce Xfce as a word instead of an initialism though, 'ecks-fiss'. Maybe I'm just broken.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Acceptable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

X forwarding is too much work