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    [–] ludicolo@lemmy.ml 25 points 10 months ago (16 children)

    Anytime I open Vim I ask the same question.

    "how the fuck do I use you?"

    then go back to nano

    repeat.

    [–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago (15 children)

    Have you tried micro? Nano but better.

    [–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (13 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.

    [–] ShrimpCurler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

    [–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months 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.

    [–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 10 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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