Which text editor do you use?

  • Rolivers@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Nano because I’m too lazy to learn vim or emacs. I want something that works and not something that operates like cheat codes in old video games.

  • nixx@lemmy.caEnglish
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    12 days ago

    The reasons us elders use VI is because on a new installation, it was the only thing available until:

    1. You are lucky enough to find a compiled version of PINE/PICO, or

    2. You have the compiler installed, and can get the source code and build it yourself.

    For some reason, some elitists decided that if you don’t know that, then you are a failure. But honestly, when modern distros started coming out with WYSIWYG-type editors, it was a relief, even though I reverted to VI/VIM because of muscle-memory, I do not push it on new users. It’s the same argument people make for driving manual vs automatic, sure it’s useful, but when was the last time you even saw a manual car? (At least in North America).

    You want to live dangerously, go ahead and put NetBSD with just the basics and leave the rest of us who want to do something useful alone.

  • plateee@piefed.socialEnglish
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    15 days ago

    vim, because that’s how my father taught me, and how his father’s father taught him.

    Choose vim! The generational trauma of file editors!

    • EnsignWashout@startrek.website
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      14 days ago

      haha!

      Sometimes I feel like my side of the holy war isn’t engaging in completely good faith.

      I might switch sides to emacs if my fingers were long enough to reach the key combinations.

      Maybe I’ll go try it, anyway!

      …

      What was the command to exit vi, again…?

    • barzaria@lemmy.world
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      14 days ago

      This command will literally overwrite the file that you do whenever you try to edit it. You need two >> to append at the end of a file, but it’s super-duper hard to put text in the middle of a file from the terminal. That is why people use editors, for sure. Now that I think about it, there probably is some psychopath who uses the actual command line as an editor. They’re probably more elitist than Vim users lol.

  • Digit@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    14 days ago

    It’s worse than the picture depicts. It’s not just the lovers, the elitists and the evangelists, it’s the sheer range of choice too, beyond the loudest.

    same cat surrounded by dozens of text editor courgettes that look like snakes

  • notabot@piefed.socialEnglish
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    15 days ago

    Let the editor holy wars (re)start!

    Vim is the one true editor, and the heretics who claim otherwise shall be driven forth and sent to re-education linux boot camps to learn the true ways.

    • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
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      14 days ago

      It has a few quirks I utterly despise :(

      Like it cannot print invisible characters. Had a script create some broken folders with a BOM character at the beginning. I couldn’t access the files in any way except that they appeared in dolphin and ls. Had to delete them via the fucking inode.

      I was forced to use VSCode (an open source fork at least) to find out what the fuck was wrong with the input file the script used to generate the folder name.

      • EnsignWashout@startrek.website
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        14 days ago

        Like it cannot print invisible characters.

        I was looking at an option to display invisible characters in Kate like last week. So it got better, I guess.

        • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
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          14 days ago

          Only non-printable spaces from what I can tell.

          The BOM character does not fall into this category and is still invisible. Try pasting it into Kate. It’s between those arrows:

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