• @rtxn
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    334 months ago

    I once wrote C# code in MS Word because the only other option was Notepad.

      • @rtxn
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        14 months ago

        It was school work. All I needed was some proper visual indentations and a monospaced font.

        • @SpaceNoodle
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          4 months ago

          Right, so Notepad.

          The indentations in Word won’t be “proper;” they’re based on physical dimensions, not characters.

          • @rtxn
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            14 months ago

            Like I said, all I needed was visual indentation. C# doesn’t have significant whitespaces. As long as you account for all of the braces and semicolons, you could write an entire program in a single line.

    • @[email protected]
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      204 months ago

      I was there, Gandalf, 3000 years ago, writing my first html code in notepad. And I was happy about that.

    • @Deestan
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      154 months ago

      I wrote some code with ed once. It had a nice, calm insanity to it.

    • @[email protected]
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      54 months ago

      I honestly don’t understand how notepad is a worse alternative to word.

      Word is great for formatting documents but not code.

  • @[email protected]
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    4 months ago

    Why would anyone bother learning both Vim and LibreOffice when LibreOffice supports every file format Vim does, and more?

    • Chaos
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      64 months ago

      I have a friend who keeps bragging about vim and all but tbh it’s not a big deal to keep this hype going. I use featherpad btw.

  • @[email protected]
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    164 months ago

    I switched from vim to emacs a couple weeks ago specifically for org mode and it has legit changed the way I work.

    • @chonglibloodsport
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      114 months ago

      I switched from vim to emacs years ago. Then years later I switched back. Emacs is cool and all but it really killed my pinkie finger!

    • @[email protected]
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      54 months ago

      What have you found most useful from switching? I switched to emacs a while ago and still feel like a beginner (largely because I got too greedy with all the goodies at the beginning and ended up with loads of features I hadn’t learned to use yet and a messy init.el. I restarted and am adding features as I need them, to prevent that same complexity sprawl)

      • @[email protected]
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        14 months ago

        I needed a better organization tool to keep track of tasks and todos, and I read about org mode on lemmy. I ended up following this tutorial and then building my own templates once I understood everything. It’s fantastic now that I have it a little customized, makes it so quick and easy to keep notes.

    • @ysjet
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      14 months ago

      Huh. I’m sorry to hear you got fired.

      :P