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Just use cURL (justuse.org)

submitted 10 months ago by limer@lemmy.ml to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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This is hilarious to me, after using the evil things for years . Of course, there are reasons to use the hated postman and companies (may they be forever cursed). And I plan to keep using them.

But many valid points are made

[–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (4 children)

The only point I can say is that editing text on the terminal isn't as simple as a regular text field. And AFAIK the only way to write a query on a regular text editor would be to write it, save to file, run file...

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[–] dunz@feddit.nu 11 points 10 months ago

Pressing C-x C-e opens the current commandline in your default editor.

As in what's in your $EDITOR variable. If you haven't touched it, it's most likely Nano or some minimal vim

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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 months ago

I find that if your command is complex enough that editing it on the terminal becomes annoying, then there's a very high chance you want it in a file anyways, just to document what you did and to allow easily re-running it.

Having said that, you can also have your shell open the command in your editor of choice: https://www.stefanjudis.com/today-i-learned/edit-long-shell-commands-in-your-usdeditor/

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[–] Cort@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago*

Couldn't you write in the text editor then copy/paste into terminal without saving? (Who needs documentation anyway)

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[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

I write in Notepad++ then copy paste to WSL.

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