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nixCraft 🐧

A sneak peek from my upcoming book 🫣 would you read it?

@nixCraft Huh. The future of Unix books might -- MIGHT -- be in good hands. Keep going!

@nixCraft I can't tell if this is sarcasm or gate-keepy. LOL

@nixCraft @gardiner_bryant ...as my sig on /. used to say:
"Sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from reality."
(forgot whom I stole it from, though).

@nixCraft no offense, but this is the least of my worries right now. Yes, we should double down on joy and hope and all that, but I'm here wondering if me and my wife are going to be put into camps by our new President/Fuhrer.

@csgraves That sucks. I hope you and your loved one will be safe. I can’t even imagine such a feeling. Stay strong, my friend.

@nixCraft I use vim all the time and have done for years but I literally just know how to insert, save and exit. Oh and search for text. Nothing else 🤷‍♂️🙂

@nixCraft recently been using micro instead of nano in a lot of cases

@remulus @nixCraft WinSCP (as root to access the file) and Wordpad (to edit).

@avoidthehack @nixCraft I wished I learned Nano first. I find no joy in Vim except :q!

@vegetarianzombie I am a filthy nano user for life. The only time I've used/will use Vim is to rescue a cloud server via console.

I still have to look up the keyboard commands because I just don't use it. I am not ashamed. :ablobcathyper:

@nixCraft nah, it looks like you asked ChatGPT to generate Vim and Emacs slander. (I'm fine with *Vim slander)

@nixCraft Who in the seven hells is using nano for programming 😂

@nixCraft

See, I'm noting that you completely avoid ed/sed, so I'm having a difficult time taking you seriously. I probably wouldn't buy your book.

Sorry, not sorry.

@h3net @nixCraft I don't think the Linux community needs more elitism in the realm of text editors

@nixCraft mcedit for the win!11!!!!

@nixCraft@mastodon.social

I still remember (mid-1990s) having to fix unbootable systems because n00b-SAs had used
pico to edit critical config files and pico had "helpfully" injected line-breaks any time a config file's line was longer than the screen-width. Was especially fun because, at the time, vi often wasn't available in emergency-mode and you had to use ex to fix things.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social lol, vim?

I mostly use neovim. I had to teach myself Lua to configure it the way I like. Adding a new language to your arsenal is a major win.

@nixCraft No, that's patronising as fuck. Sometimes you want a quick editor, not the stupid modal crap of vi and not the lisp of emacs and certainly not some dos-level one line crap.

@nixCraft Who do you see as potential readers? Or the "target audience" as they say now 🤔

@nixCraft
lol, not touching this 🙄 😜