• woelkchen@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Sometimes it’s not so easy to fire up a GUI, like when you ssh into another machine.

      CLI text editors have their specific use cases. For all other cases GUI ones (Kate, VSCode,…) exist.

      • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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        CLI text editors have their specific use cases.

        Couldn’t agree more. My use cases tend to be:

        • text editor
        • note taking
        • IDE
        • config editor
        • log viewer
        • adhoc data prep
        • json viewer

        EMACS users sometimes add web browser and email client, among other things but, that’s a bit further than I go. The perf for either of the main two blows nearly any GUI editor out of the water and being able to pipe stdout/stderr to them is just the wonderful cherry on top.