• woelkchen@lemmy.world
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    2 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.

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        2 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.

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          2 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.

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        2 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.

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          2 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.