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Hi, everybody Recently, a guy noticed that I was using it and asked why? For me it because in Linux many things are done through the terminal because Linux has many different desktop environments

He also compared terminal commands with cheat codes in GTA and other games, he understands what benefits you take from them, but not from terminal commands

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Just so you know, in emacs you can do mass rename of multiple files using dired-mode. Never use a for loop again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm sorry, I'm too old to learn emacs over my perfect knowledge of Midnight Commander.

The point of this topic was to tell why we are using terminal, and emacs is kind of terminal on steroids, there are like 1000 key bindings and the mouse is totally optional, you are proving the point even further.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

dired mode is very similar to mc

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

There's also vidir from moreutils, which lets you bulk-rename files in your $EDITOR of choice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I just discovered that I know emacs commands because I use them in the bash terminal all the time.

Hey look, it's us:

https://odysee.com/@ProgrammersAreAlsoHuman:3/interview-with-an-emacs-enthusiast-in:d

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

It's emacspiracy to subtly teach unsuspecting Ubuntu users the despicable ways of Emacs Lisp.

It all starts with learning 100 common terminal keybindings. And un-learning Ctrl-C.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago