Re: What programs do you make sure are installed on a new Linux

On 11/16/2024 04:31, D wrote:

  On Fri, 15 Nov 2024, Phillip Frabott wrote:
 

nano
git
openssh
gnutls
links
bash
automake
autoconf
gcc
mutt
htop
iotop
gomuks
tmux
WordGrinder
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and that's it.
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When I'm done I go home and spend the evening with family.

 Wordgrinder is not a common choice. Could you please tell me a bit about it? Wat is it with wordgrinder that guys you joy when writing texts?

I should probably note, if it's not apparent in the list above, I live in bash. I do not use a WM day-to-day. I'm a purist shell-only user. WordGrinder is the only shell program I was able to find that has support great support for ODT, a format that I have to be able to use at work since almost all of our documents are either ODT or MD (Mostly ODT). It has a pretty decent spell checker that you can add to it's dictionary and has pretty good formatting support within the limitations of shell (You won't be adding images, but I don't get paid enough to make documentation with pretty pictures anyways). It is probably the most feature-rich shell application I've found so far. You can look at it here if you want: https://cowlark.com/wordgrinder/
If you have a recommendation for something other then WordGrinder that works without any Xorg/X11 components installed though, I'd be happy to try it out. It has to support opening and saving (or importing/exporting) into ODT and MD formats and must be able to compile source-only and no docker.
Before you ask, since you'll probably find me in another thread asking about Gentoo related to KDE, I do have Xorg installed on another machine but it's only for the small sliver of time where I have to test a desktop program I'm writing for the company I work for. And I use a separate machine for that. Most of my time is in headless code though so it's not often I have to boot it up.
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Phillip Frabott
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