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Edit: I just saw the two typos. If you find them, you're welcome to keep them.

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

I write all my code on paper and use OCR to convert it. It almost works sometimes.

[–] Adalast@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I used Notepad++ for virtually all coding I did (Python, JS, various Markup Languages, Action Script back in the day, etc) for a couple decades. The only reason I use VSCode now is because I inherited a nightmare of a legacy spaghetti bowl and needed the function tracing to attempt to figure out anything. I still prefer N++ for most small projects.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

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

[–] Gloria@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sublime! There are DOZENS of us! Dozens!

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

I'm doing my part

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 months ago

I like SublimeText for everything unless a quick edit at the CLI with Vim.

[–] sockpuppetsociety@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What about the libre office version?

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[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Notepad.exe has been my daily driver for anything that doesn't need a compiler for decades.

[–] marius@feddit.org 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You mean the one that didn't even do proper line endings until recently?

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago

Yep. There are simple command line utilities that will convert the line breaks if necessary.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 months ago

And would save in non-UTF8 format by default. No idea, if they changed that by now.

[–] chad@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months 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.

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago (8 children)

text editor application that came with Ubuntu

nano

shivers

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[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

At one of my jobs around 2010 there was a dev in the office who wrote all his code in Notepad. When I joined the staff they were still using Classic ASP. My job was to help them (finally) migrate to ASP.Net. He intended to develop .Net apps in Notepad rather than learn how to use VS. I got laid off due to cutbacks and never found out what kind of luck he had wit dat.

[–] Daniikk1012@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] T156@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is such a waste of time to the point where it infuriates me. I know the standard answer is "why not?", but it's just cringe to, like you are trying too hard to purposely be stupid, whereas with standard text editor you can say already they cba'ed to install anything so it was a case of initial setup vs. long term productivity.

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[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago

That boy is gonna be a murderer

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