• ludicolo@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Anytime I open Vim I ask the same question.

    “how the fuck do I use you?”

    then go back to nano

    repeat.

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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.

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        2 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.