I regret nothing. Say what you want.
Edit: I just saw the two typos. If you find them, you're welcome to keep them.
what? gedit is awesome. it has good code highlighting and thats what we need right?
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if you've never used ed(1) technically it's illegal for you to say "it's a UNIX system, i know this"
I've used ed.
Ctrl+Alt+F3 htop /ed F9 Enter
The irony being that scene had a GUI and ed is, well...
?obligatory FSN links
- https://web.archive.org/web/19991009154641/http://www.sgi.com/fun/freeware/3d_navigator.html SGI webpage archive from 1999
- https://github.com/DX94-Quas/3d-file-system-navigator - SGI fsn binaries here, for IRIX versions 5.3 and below
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_System_Visualizer - 1999 free software rewrite in C
- https://github.com/mcuelenaere/fsv - fork of 1999 version, updated 2018
- https://github.com/jtsiomb/fsnav - 2009 C++ free software rewrite, updated 2021
I coded several of my early mobile app releases entirely in gedit. Good times.
I sometimes forget how good we have it now. I wrote those apps around 2012 and the DX for the platforms was basically non-existent. Virtually every platform had shit documentation, shit version management, a shit IDE with minimal refactoring features, a shitty debugging experience, and everything felt like it was being botched together by 3 guys in their spare time.
It's incredible now that we have things like hot reloading. You can literally save a change and BAM it's on the screen seconds later. On native platforms no less. Astounding.
i've programmed in edlin. so there.
Man I just use Notepad or IDLE most of the time, I feel you man
What about people, who just burn the machine code directly onto a CD with a laser?
Pff, real programmers use butterflies. We open our hands and let the delicate wings flap once. The disturbance ripples outward, changing the flow of the eddy currents in the upper atmosphere. These cause momentary pockets of higher-pressure air to form, which acts as lenses that deflect incoming cosmic rays, focusing them to strike the drive platter and flip the desired bit.
And then there is a colleague who programs in Notepad++ directly on the test server and then just copies his code to prod.
(yes, he works alone on that project)
Yep. Fancy devs watching me coding some Rakulang in nano 😂
I do it in nano over ssh. The shortcuts suck but it gets the job done.
I recommend "micro" which is like Nano but uses modern shortcuts. Making it a terminal editor which feels more like using notepad than something esoteric.
I used to copy code into nano over ssh. Then I randomly tried pasting the server address in my file browser and it connected over SFTP. This was ages ago. I was using Crunchbang Linux, maybe around 2011 or so.
You can enable modernbindings in nano to get standard shortcuts like ctrl-s for save.
Did not know this. Will certainly look into it because my nano over ssh days aren't over yet haha.
doesn't vim come with the Ubuntu installation?
Learned C++ by using gedit on the Sun machines in my college's computer lab in 2007. They were decommissioned shortly after I graduated.
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