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VS Code for Linux may be secretly hoarding trashed files
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Friendly reminder, that Emacs exists.
Hostile reminder that vi exists.
Helix crew, where we at
#nano4life
I open nano more often than any other editor, and by a lot. I spend more TIME in vscode and maybe Kate, but lately I've been tweaking setups on a couple of machines.
Use
sudoedit(orsudo -e) to make sure you don't mess up permissions and alsoexport EDITOR=vimin your shell to use a superior editor.JED checking in from out wherever Voyager is at the moment (sorry about the lag)
And vim/nvim.
*And vim~~/nvim~~.
I am sorry? Are you suggesting that somehow an text editor has more functionality than a fucking OS?
It is an old joke that I thought was very well known, at least for people that know about emacs, my mistake, but hey, Luck 10.000 of you, so here it goes: