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Re:The power of the command-line as a programming environment by massysett on Monday December 28, 2015 @02:04PM (#10802716)
OK, wonderful. What text editor do you use in this environment? vim? emacs? ed? Where do you run your command line? A command line can run in a dedicated terminal emulator, or it can run...inside of an IDE, or inside of emacs, or tmux. How do you do compile/edit cycles--vim quickfix? Just run the compiler in a separate window and manually move to each error?

The post mentions composition, extensibility, and keyboard instead of mouse. Many IDEs can do that. Certainly emacs can. Then it says that the UNIX way has "consistency." If that were true I wouldn't spend so much time reading the bash man page when I'm trying to figure out all the ${parameter:?expansion} options.

This is not really a specific post. It's your usual paean to old-school UNIX but it does not say what it really means to use "the command-line as a programming environment".

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Re:The power of the command-line as a programming environment by chillingeffect on Monday December 28, 2015 @02:32PM (#10802867)
Heh. I am one of those old-school UNIX people, and this post does little for me. It's really just somebody's thoughts out loud.

It's also their first and only blog post on his blog which, now that I look at it, he calls "My random thoughts."

Hmmm. I'm wondering how this got upvoted...

Reading a little bit more about the person on their about page: "I was relatively successful,creating and managing over 10 websites on a dedicated server generating around 5000 users/day at peek time. Along the way, I’ve created a couple of softwares to promote websites, scrape data, post content, break captchas etc…"

I am wondering if this was just a hack?

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Re:The power of the command-line as a programming environment by dllthomas on Tuesday December 29, 2015 @01:11AM (#10805511)
I can't speak for the poster, but I use vim quickfix, often populated from the shell. alias cbuf='vim - -c "cbuf!"' allows for things like `git grep -n frobnitz | cbuf`.
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