U guys are using terminal? Like barbarians?
there is no text editor there is only nano
Real wizards use
ed
I’m gonna find a fallout community and post this there.
You’re entitled to your wrong opinion
Vim is a puzzle based text editor
Funny you should say that, because…
Exactly, it is lovely. Editing text with it is actually enjoyable.
The dopamine rush when you nail a complicated
%s
regex search-and-replace first try is insaneAww yeah. Feels good.
Performing all those whacky movements and operations is nothing short of an arcade gaming experience.
How did these people have “text editor wars” and yet failed to deliver a text editor half as good as microsoft’s edit.com ?
I’m sorry nano, you’re think you’re hot ?
But you put search on CTRL+W !!!
Do you know how stupid that is ?
Just go and try that in your browser …
Just use Micro
Anytime I open Vim I ask the same question.
“how the fuck do I use you?”
then go back to nano
repeat.
Have you tried micro? Nano but better.
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.
I refuse to use any GUI until people stop pronouncing it as gooey.
“Graphical UI” it is
Well now I’m going to pronounce it gooey even harder!
Hopefully tongue-in-cheek.
Because sure. Microsoft Word is the best IDE.Hopefully tongue-in-cheek.
No.
Because sure. Microsoft Word is the best IDE.
Learn the difference between a word processor and a text editor.
Guess you’re not up on your memes. Frightfully sorry for responding to what I assumed was a meme answer with a meme answer.
Sometimes it’s not so easy to fire up a GUI, like when you ssh into another machine.
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.
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.
X forwarding is too much work
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.
Sudo apt install AGAIN!
I’m gonna laugh my ass off if someone finds out there was some obscure Emacs fork or clone designed to run Clojure or something, and it’s named Again
I know you didn’t ask, but you don’t need a weird fork of emacs to run a Clojure REPL, that just works in regular emacs
this guy gets it. there are dozens of us
I feel like this was a self burn and I appreciate it.
Much prefer Mirco thank you very much.
I’ve no choice coz I haven’t been able to quit for last 7 years.
I do everything with cat, sed and awk.
Fuck your TUIs.
But how do you write your awk script?
chatgpt
cat > filename << END
of course.
I can’t try again because I can’t exit out …
Just type
:!bash
(or whatever heathenous shell you prefer) and you never have to leave the warm embrace of vim ever againIt’s a common problem but the correct solution to closing vim is quite easy, press and hold control alt and F5 to drop to a new terminal. From there you can do “killall vim” to properly close vim, then just drop back to your main session
I wish I’d read this years ago! I’ve nearly bankrupted myself buying a new machine each time, thanks!
Good, you still can get it right on the first try then
Once you try Vim you will never use another text editor. Or any other program for that matter because you won’t be able to exit.
I also had that experience with emacs, which has a built in help system. I couldn’t find a topic on ‘exit’ or ‘quit’ and refused to just search online.
Took me half an hour.
and refused to just search online
Unless you were f*cked by your ISP as I am right now, that’s having some balls. Or being masochist. But nothing in between
I really didn’t want to let it win.
I’m editor bilingual but im a bit rusty in Emacs, so skill check: its C-x C-c right?
Ctrl + meta + butterfly
Yes. Though I believe it only kills the current frame if there are multiple
No, I think that exits. C-c k kills the buffer, C-x 0 (zero) will kill the frame. But I may have changed my binds and can never remember which is window and which is frame in emacs terms.
However, it’s somewhat moot as just about everywhere you run emacs, it’ll open up in gui mode and you can use the file menu. (Or use F10 to bring up the menus in terminal, but I have no idea where on the manual it would say that)
What are you running MS-DOS? laughs in multi-tasking.
I just drag my vi terminals to another workspace and launch a new editor.
I just drag my vi terminals to another workspace and launch a new editor.
I see what you did there. Lol.
Emacs