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[–] AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 11 points 1 month ago (6 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.

[–] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago (1 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.

[–] AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wow, you're right of course. I completely forgot kwrite still existed, tbh.

[–] KaninchenSpeed@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Kwrite doesnt really exist on its own anymore. Its a slimmed down gui for kate now.

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[–] Plumbob@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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

So VIM?

[–] moody@lemmings.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] llii@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago

I think gedit is a great text editor.

[–] zorro@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Doesn't it ship with nano these days?

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 month ago

Both, last I checked.

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[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month 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.

[–] TinyRhino@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Krelis_@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[–] Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month 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)

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month 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"

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

?
[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

obligatory FSN links
collapsed inline mediascreenshot of SGI's FSN

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[–] Korkki@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I code using grep's search and replace.

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[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (11 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.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I see you've never used emacs.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

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

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)
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[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 month 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.

[–] toothpick@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

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

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[–] sheepishly@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

doesn't vim come with the Ubuntu installation?

[–] angband@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

i've programmed in edlin. so there.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 3 points 1 month 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.

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