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      1 hour ago

      Accurate. The keyboard shortcuts just make sense and it’s full of features from this millennia. Like control click for multi cursor, automatic syntax highlighting, and automatic lint indicators.

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      5 hours ago

      Have you tried GUI text editors? They’re like the CLI ones, just from this millennium. We’re no longer etching runes into rocks any more either.

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          50 minutes ago

          Hopefully tongue-in-cheek.

          No.

          Because sure. Microsoft Word is the best IDE.

          Learn the difference between a word processor and a text editor.

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          46 minutes 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.