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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

At one of my jobs around 2010 there was a dev in the office who wrote all his code in Notepad. When I joined the staff they were still using Classic ASP. My job was to help them (finally) migrate to ASP.Net. He intended to develop .Net apps in Notepad rather than learn how to use VS. I got laid off due to cutbacks and never found out what kind of luck he had wit dat.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

That boy is gonna be a murderer

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

At uni I did a lot of my Java coursework in notepad, then I’d have to take it into a computer lab on a floppy, tar it and upload it to a unix terminal so it could be emailed to the professor. Java syntax with only the command line compiler is not fun.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

Vim and emacs are text editors.

Vs code is a code editor (but really it's also just a text editor)

Maybe they mean IDEs like visual studio?

I've never really heard it called a coding GUI before.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (4 children)

So an IDE is a code editor that ships with an LSP server, not just an LSP interface? (Doesn't have to be LSP as such but "stuff that an LSP server does").

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Vim and emacs usually run in the terminal and require keyboard commands to complete actions.

A GUI IDE like vscode or pycharm has mouse driven menus and buttons, although of course it's possible to use keyboard commands.

That to me is the difference. Personally, I use vim mod with pycharm and some messy hybrid combination of vim commands and ctrl + ?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Notepad.exe has been my daily driver for anything that doesn't need a compiler for decades.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You mean the one that didn't even do proper line endings until recently?

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

And would save in non-UTF8 format by default. No idea, if they changed that by now.

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

Yep. There are simple command line utilities that will convert the line breaks if necessary.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

As long as you don't use Microsoft Word we can be friends

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What about the libre office version?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Bonus points if you're saving it as an .odt and still producing a validly executable file of some kind

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

You're weird, but we can be friends if you want.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I code using grep's search and replace.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I code using a telegraph machine in morse code.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

I code using punch cards hand cutting each hole with a xacto knife

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Ed is the most user unfriendly text editor ever created.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh, I remember ed! He's the talking horse from that old black and white show, right?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

No one can code with a horse, of course. That is of course, unless the horse is the famous mr Ed.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

text editor application that came with Ubuntu

nano

shivers

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I'm probably in the minority but I think it's fantastic! No extra baggage, super quick to work with, and it does syntax highlighting pretty well!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

It's also self explanatory, which is great if you're new.

Ed and Vim are basically arcane by comparison.

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

I also love it. It was my go-to back when I had to walk inexperienced sysadmins through configuring stuff, in my tech support days. I really appreciate all the commands being listed at the bottom.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Nah man, I'm with you, nano is no nonsense get shit done editor. It might not have advanced features but I'm not an advanced man.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Just wait until you try Micro

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Bloat! Who needs an editor 1000 times the size of their previous one?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

I like SublimeText for everything unless a quick edit at the CLI with Vim.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Winks in Notepad ;)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

I write all my code on paper and use OCR to convert it. It almost works sometimes.

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