[OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Sun Sep 15 02:38:09 PDT 2013


On 2013-09-14 10:23, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 19:56:14 -0400
> "Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:
>>
>> I guess that it's a matter of perspective. Personally, I find the
>> Windows/DOS shell to be completely unusable and use git-bash when I'm
>> forced to use Windows. Windows definitely has some things going for
>> it (e.g. its graphics engine creams the horror that is X.org IMHO),
>> but on the whole, I find that Linux is just way better for a power
>> user like myself. Windows doesn't even come close to cutting it.
>>
>
> While I definitely prefer bash to the windows prompt overall, there are
> some places where I think windows makes the linux cmdline look bad.
> Like launching a GUI program instead of a CLI:
>
> Windows (nice):
> % program-cli file.txt
> % program-gui file.txt
>
> Linux (wtf?!):
> % program-cli file.txt
> % program-gui file.txt >/dev/null 2>%1 &

On Mac OS X I usually use "open" command to open a file in the default 
application.

$ open file.txt

Or I can explicitly specify the application:

open -a /Applications/TextEdit.app foo.txt

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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