why do you prefer writing in terminal based editor?
A terminal-based workflow for research, writing, and programming
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Re: A terminal-based workflow for research, writing, and programming
#12Very nice! I've tried to switch over to a terminal-based workflow but Qt Creator, VS Code, and Firefox for Atlassian products have been the main holdouts for me. I can't see myself moving away from Qt Creator, but I would kill for an ncurses app for editing Confluence pages and reviewing pull requests without 1200ms between every. single. click.
At the very least this article has given me the itch to dust off the old dotfiles and start fiddling with zsh again!
Re: A terminal-based workflow for research, writing, and programming
#13At risk of being /that guy/, I find that emacs gives me a nice & consistent "one-stop-shop" for text-based apps instead of having to kludge together a bunch disparate terminal programs.
Also, +1 for Julia.
Re: A terminal-based workflow for research, writing, and programming
#14Whoa the terminal based browser mentioned (ranger) looks awesome! I’ve been looking for something similar since I SSH so much more because of the WFH situation. I love how it has the image preview too!
Re: A terminal-based workflow for research, writing, and programming
#15I tried very hard when I first installed Linux to get into a terminal-based workflow, mainly by creating an elaborate vim config. In the end I couldn't do it. I spent a lot of my time at my computer writing LaTeX documents, and for this the ctrl-click capability of a GUI editor is indispensable. That is, the editor brings up the source and compiled file simultaneously, and by ctrl-clicking somewhere in either, I am b…
What GUI do you use for that Latex editing experience?
Nothing has rivaled VSC for me.
Re: A terminal-based workflow for research, writing, and programming
#16A good alternative to strictly terminal-based workflows are tiled window managers.
The big gain is that you don't have to give up all those gui apps as they blend in next to the terminal apps quite well.
Re: A terminal-based workflow for research, writing, and programming
#17Whoa the terminal based browser mentioned (ranger) looks awesome! I’ve been looking for something similar since I SSH so much more because of the WFH situation. I love how it has the image preview too!
If you're particularly unix-y, nnn is really cool and composes really well.
Re: A terminal-based workflow for research, writing, and programming
#18why do you prefer writing in terminal based editor?
Personally, I'm in a terminal anyways doing other things. tmux really enables me to compose things together really powerfully.
Re: A terminal-based workflow for research, writing, and programming
#19A good alternative to strictly terminal-based workflows are tiled window managers. The big gain is that you don't have to give up all those gui apps as they blend in next to the terminal apps quite well.
Tiled windows managers have issues though. Last time I tried i3wm for example, there was no default support for sleep, energy saving and hardware keyboard shortcuts and you had to take care of all of that instead of the usual GNOME/KDE to do it for you. The best option is to install tiled windows managers plugins within GNOME or KDE on Linux.
Re: A terminal-based workflow for research, writing, and programming
#20Whoa the terminal based browser mentioned (ranger) looks awesome! I’ve been looking for something similar since I SSH so much more because of the WFH situation. I love how it has the image preview too!
there's also lf.