>> But support them in their own choices and autonomy.

I mean yeah, sorta, sometimes. But other times u get back that vibe of “I just don’t care to learn something new, I’d rather do the bare minimum and I’m not really hungry to learn new things”. And recognizing the presence of this attitude is what causes the looking down upon.

Have you tried...

Vs

What you should do is...

vs "lol use a real editor n00b"

Real developers only use cat >> <file> to edit, and start from scratch if they make a mistake.

That's basically edlin

In Plan 9 the terminal has something called "hold mode" which lets you do multi-line editing in that situation.

I guess I'm imaginary then, because I use sed -i to fix mistakes.

I don't know if they're taught these days-- they weren't when I was in school-- but sed & awk are two tools I'd recommend to pretty much everyone.

I remember stumbling on to them in my first job and thinking an very much appreciating their power over having to write a small program to iterate through an arbitrary # of files to do something... and another small program if I wanted to do something slightly different, etc.

If numbers can be imaginary, why not people? Many imaginary numbers are extremely useful, so there's no reason you can't lead a perfectly productive career as an imaginary person.

Or a magnetized needle, or a butterfly...

https://xkcd.com/378/

Wow, it seems I wasn't thinking low-level enough. I'll have to remember that emacs macro. If I ever get around to learning emacs.