• dezmd@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    The only Dad advice you nerds need:

    mcedit from the Midnight Commander (mc) tool is the superior text editor.

    I don’t even run arch, btw.

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      2 months ago

      I’m a simple man. I see midnight commander, I think ‘dang, I need to use it more, stop calling me out’

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      2 months ago

      I remember when the GNOME file manager was this kind of interesting hybrid that used MC for the backend. The one thing I liked about it was that it could be docked in Window Maker. Yep I was using a Dock in GNOME waaaaaaaaaaaaaay before most GNOME users.

      Nowadays it’s still possible to replicate my old Window Maker desktop in XFCE.

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      2 months ago

      Ok, let’s try that

      FIrst

      Ok, that is already more storage space than openwrt needs to run a full linux distro

      root@proxmox:~# mc mytestfile.txt

      Esscuse me, the fuck is this !?

      • dezmd@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        You’re looking at the full mc package rather than just mcedit. Even then, Midnight Commander is absolutely worth that whopping 7.9MB of space it takes for all the functionality it provides.

        Openwrt is not an example to use to compate against a package size, as it’s target built to fit into small firmware storage spaces on all sorts of random hardware. That’s comparing existential philosophy with oranges.

        Would you download a car?