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    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

    [–] woelkchen 1 points 1 month 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 1 month 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.