Post AinJB92AcGDqdn6O4e by interfluidity@zirk.us
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(DIR) Post #AinJB92AcGDqdn6O4e by interfluidity@zirk.us
2024-06-10T19:30:58Z
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What is the best plaintext editor for less technical people?Like, if a non technical friend was going to edit some config or a bit of boilerplatey code.Notepad / TextEdit wouldn't be great, but neither would emacs or vim (and they're not going to mess with any IDE).
(DIR) Post #AinJSQTV1bS7eh7prc by llimllib@hachyderm.io
2024-06-10T19:34:04Z
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@interfluidity What operating system?notepad++ on windows and vs code would probably be my recommendations, vs code is big overkill but reasonably easy to install
(DIR) Post #AinJWt74UT6JdLlKrY by caitp@mstdn.social
2024-06-10T19:34:52Z
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@interfluidity I'm probably not the target audience here, but I would vote for Sublime -- there are a lot of features, but the basics of the UI flow is pretty simple, and it will figure out a lot of syntax highlighting for common formats out of the box -- and lots of addons with snippets or custom language support etc if needed.textmate was pretty good but I do think the UI was a bit convoluted, and Notepad++ was even worse
(DIR) Post #AinJX1J41lRn2rR1fM by LouisIngenthron@qoto.org
2024-06-10T19:34:55Z
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@interfluidity Honestly, notepad is pretty solid imo.The next level up would probably be something like VS Code or Notepad++. They might be a little overkill, but they'll leave room to grow.
(DIR) Post #AinJxWo3XBToGlZTZw by blazeward7@mastodon.social
2024-06-10T19:39:41Z
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@interfluidity I use Mousepad on my XUbuntu machine.
(DIR) Post #AinK67ynD1ldsPh4oS by shane@zirk.us
2024-06-10T19:41:15Z
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@interfluidity If it's linux, maybe Kate? https://kate-editor.org/en-gb/
(DIR) Post #AinLqKRnHok3osqxJw by billseitz@toolsforthought.social
2024-06-10T20:00:48Z
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@interfluidity I'm a (Mac) BBEdit fan
(DIR) Post #AiniDVhnnDDGO8neG8 by admitsWrongIfProven@qoto.org
2024-06-11T00:11:25Z
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@interfluidity On windows, notepad++. On linux, i would hope nano, since it is not that bad... but if people use linux and hate command line interface, i am out. no good graphical editor for all perversions available.
(DIR) Post #AioQgpLUeK57OpU3xg by ComradeGibbon@mastodon.social
2024-06-11T08:29:49Z
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@interfluidity I used to use Programmers notepad, but it's very very old now. I think it doesn't like windows 11 very much.https://www.pnotepad.org/It's built on Scintilla which tends to create very snappy editors.
(DIR) Post #AitQUmWCSItMnOMldY by Hyolobrika@social.fbxl.net
2024-06-13T18:21:12.549950Z
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@admitsWrongIfProven @interfluidity gedit?
(DIR) Post #AitQxtEYZCHK1MzfEW by kirby@lab.nyanide.com
2024-06-13T18:23:02.918590Z
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@interfluidity nano
(DIR) Post #AitSOTl3UdWamYRAMy by rdr@5dollah.click
2024-06-13T18:41:21.756967Z
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@s8n @interfluidity check the record. check the guy's track record. HE....IS....NOT!!!!
(DIR) Post #AitU3rGB7NXHV1I1Am by admitsWrongIfProven@qoto.org
2024-06-13T18:23:16Z
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@Hyolobrika @interfluidity Sounds reasonable since most people use gnome, but i wouldn't know since i stay away from both gnome and kde.
(DIR) Post #AitU3sfjrpZlsaFweW by Hyolobrika@social.fbxl.net
2024-06-13T19:01:08.285705Z
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@admitsWrongIfProven @interfluidity I don't think gedit depends on GNOME, does it? It's just a GTK application.