I am so tired haha
PaX [comrade/them, they/them]
Very tired nerd who doesn’t know how to speak correctly
Ask me about floppa, Plan 9, or computer architecture or anything computers really (if you want)
The only zoomer qualified to operate an RBMK reactor
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If I don’t reply to you it’s probably cuz I’m too tired, sorry :(
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91·2 months agoOkay but it was less
, relatively 
to now
2·2 months agoOhh, I know, I was just making a joke cuz ed will print
?when it doesn’t recognize a command and many people will see that over and over if they can’t figure out how to exit lolI also got lost in vi and ed when I first used them lol
Tbh if I’m just making quick edits to config files or whatever I use nano lmao
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If you like Unixy editors, highly recommend also looking into acme
Russ Cox describes it in this video as more like an “integrating development environment” as in it works with your surrounding operating system rather than an “integrated development environment”
Doesn’t shine as much on Unix as in Plan 9 though. Also no linter or formatter built into or distributed with acme but you probably could get your language’s usual tools to work pretty well with it
Ed is the standard text editor.
31·4 months agodeleted by creator
Or maybe terminal emulation needs to be brought up to speed with modern computing. New terminal specs and all that.
Yeah, I agree. I should have been more clear lol. See my other comment.
Sorry, I should have been more clear. I agree with you. I’m not talking about text-based interfaces and commands. I just mean the way Unix/POSIX handles “terminals” (devices that accept streams of characters according to a protocol established in the 70s) is an antiquated way of handling simple plain text streams. It made sense back then when there was a need to send commands to dumb terminals in-band with the plaintext but this doesn’t really make sense these days when your “terminal” is actually just a program pretending to be a dumb terminal running inside a window. When was the last time you used job control instead of opening another window?
Satire or not, it’s still correct lol. Terminals and terminal emulation need to be destroyed. Modern systems with graphics and windowing systems are not VT100s and that’s a good thing.
Windows UI design peaked with Windows 98 and Unix UI design peaked with IRIX imo