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    Me giving advice about text editors (lemmy.world)
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    [–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    The only Dad advice you nerds need:

    mcedit from the Midnight Commander (mc) tool is the superior text editor.

    I don't even run arch, btw.

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

    I'm a simple man. I see midnight commander, I think 'dang, I need to use it more, stop calling me out'

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

    I remember when the GNOME file manager was this kind of interesting hybrid that used MC for the backend. The one thing I liked about it was that it could be docked in Window Maker. Yep I was using a Dock in GNOME waaaaaaaaaaaaaay before most GNOME users.

    Nowadays it's still possible to replicate my old Window Maker desktop in XFCE.

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

    Ok, let's try that

    FIrst

    Ok, that is already more storage space than openwrt needs to run a full linux distro

    root@proxmox:~# mc mytestfile.txt

    Esscuse me, the fuck is this !?

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

    You're looking at the full mc package rather than just mcedit. Even then, Midnight Commander is absolutely worth that whopping 7.9MB of space it takes for all the functionality it provides.

    Openwrt is not an example to use to compate against a package size, as it's target built to fit into small firmware storage spaces on all sorts of random hardware. That's comparing existential philosophy with oranges.

    Would you download a car?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

    You bet I would down load a car ,!! I'm going to down a car right now !!