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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

what? gedit is awesome. it has good code highlighting and thats what we need right?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

I coded several of my early mobile app releases entirely in gedit. Good times.

I sometimes forget how good we have it now. I wrote those apps around 2012 and the DX for the platforms was basically non-existent. Virtually every platform had shit documentation, shit version management, a shit IDE with minimal refactoring features, a shitty debugging experience, and everything felt like it was being botched together by 3 guys in their spare time.

It's incredible now that we have things like hot reloading. You can literally save a change and BAM it's on the screen seconds later. On native platforms no less. Astounding.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

And then there is a colleague who programs in Notepad++ directly on the test server and then just copies his code to prod.

(yes, he works alone on that project)

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

if you've never used ed(1) technically it's illegal for you to say "it's a UNIX system, i know this"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I've used ed.

Ctrl+Alt+F3 htop /ed F9 Enter

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

The irony being that scene had a GUI and ed is, well...

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

obligatory FSN linksscreenshot of SGI's FSN

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I do it in nano over ssh. The shortcuts suck but it gets the job done.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

I recommend "micro" which is like Nano but uses modern shortcuts. Making it a terminal editor which feels more like using notepad than something esoteric.

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

I used to copy code into nano over ssh. Then I randomly tried pasting the server address in my file browser and it connected over SFTP. This was ages ago. I was using Crunchbang Linux, maybe around 2011 or so.

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

You can enable modernbindings in nano to get standard shortcuts like ctrl-s for save.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Did not know this. Will certainly look into it because my nano over ssh days aren't over yet haha.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 days ago (10 children)

I genuinely do a lot of coding in Kate, the standard KDE editor. It's enough to do a lot of things, has highlighting, and is more than enough when you just need a quick fix.

I am also still using nano when editing stuff in the terminal. Please, don't judge me.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 days ago (4 children)

To be fair, Kate isn't just a text editor, it actually is an IDE. The text editor version would be kwrite, which would be horrible to program in.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

doesn't vim come with the Ubuntu installation?

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 days ago (4 children)

"Me who codes with the text editor that came with Ubuntu"...

So VIM?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I think gedit is a great text editor.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Doesn't it ship with nano these days?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Both, last I checked.

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

What about people, who just burn the machine code directly onto a CD with a laser?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Pff, real programmers use butterflies. We open our hands and let the delicate wings flap once. The disturbance ripples outward, changing the flow of the eddy currents in the upper atmosphere. These cause momentary pockets of higher-pressure air to form, which acts as lenses that deflect incoming cosmic rays, focusing them to strike the drive platter and flip the desired bit.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (17 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] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I see you've never used emacs.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

"it's a bit limited for an operating system"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I never quite understood the massive hard-on programmers have for splitting hairs.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I code using grep's search and replace.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If you're not writing it all down on paper and then punching holes in cards, you're doing it all wrong

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

All you need is a magnetised needle and a steady hand. Or butterflies.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

i've programmed in edlin. so there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Man I just use Notepad or IDLE most of the time, I feel you man

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Learned C++ by using gedit on the Sun machines in my college's computer lab in 2007. They were decommissioned shortly after I graduated.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day 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.

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