Which text editor do you use?

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[–] 27 points 1 month ago* (6 children)

Why would you need a text editor when you can just do cat > file ?

smh

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    This command will literally overwrite the file that you do whenever you try to edit it. You need two >> to append at the end of a file, but it's super-duper hard to put text in the middle of a file from the terminal. That is why people use editors, for sure. Now that I think about it, there probably is some psychopath who uses the actual command line as an editor. They're probably more elitist than Vim users lol.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Sounds like a skill issue tbh

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