• voracitude@lemmy.world
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        18 days ago

        I regularly fix my bashrc file with Notepad. I run it in Wine because I cbf to RealVNC from my Windows CE media server.

        (n.b: None of this is real, I wrote it to upset people, I’m sorry)

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          18 days ago

          Well let me upset you.

          Ive been helping my coworker on a call and he was sharing his screen. I told him to edit a file (add a line) on a linux box we develop and he copied the file to his windows host with winscp, edited it in notepad and copied it back. I fantasize about killing him ever since.

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      18 days ago

      Nano is more like fast food. It’s easy and convenient, but it makes you feel a little guilty and dirty afterwards.

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        17 days ago

        Nano is the tool that people use when they don’t have a need for TUI editors in general and therefore don’t want to have to memorize how people with teletypes decided things should have been done 75 years ago and who also don’t want to get dragged into endless pointless bickering arguments about which set of greybeards was objectively right about their sets of preferences.

        I’m glad people enjoy the editors they use and also I just wanna change a single fuckin line in a config file every once in a while without needing to consult a reference guide.

  • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com
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    17 days ago

    modal editing can be fun. it is a weird skill like driving a manual transmission.

    that said driving a manual transmission in stop and go traffic on a hot day is a lot like editing in vi sometimes.

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      15 days ago

      Unless you’re European. Then driving manual is considered basic life skill like riding a bike.