Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor

Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote at 20:52 this Wednesday (GMT):

On Tue, 20 May 2025 07:54:59 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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Kind of amusing to see the lengths that Microsoft keeps going to, to
try to bolster its sagging geek cred.
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Who the fuck would ever want to use a command-line editor,
on Microslop or otherwise?
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On GNU/Linux, the best GUI editors are:
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https://geany.org/
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https://github.com/paulsheer/cooledit
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Use either, or both, of the above and kindly STFU.
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I don't wanna hear no fucking nostalgia for 1970's
stuff.  Grow up, fer chrissake.

Cooledit hasn't been maintained in almost exactly 2 years.

Command line editors are also useful for if you need to SSH into other
computers and don't want/need to set up x forwarding, or for debugging
an x server.
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