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Me giving advice about text editors (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] woelkchen 1 points 3 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days 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.