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Wouldn't a proper structured editor be more suitable for blind coding? The market isn't large but I can't imagine blindly navigating through a sea of characters
by jhgb 9y ago
Wouldn't a proper structured editor be more suitable for blind coding? The market isn't large but I can't imagine blindly navigating through a sea of characters. Sounds terrifying.
- Klockan 9y agoPeople once coded in ed and it is kinda like coding blind. You don't have a display, instead you can move to specific line numbers and print or replace them. It sounds impossible at first but you get used to it if you only use ed.
- zokier 9y agoI've been thinking that doing a "30 day command-line challenge" might be cool, idea being that you'd be limited to command-line based tools only. No fancy visual editors or ncurses browsers. Just pure line-oriented bliss (or more likely, hell). ex would be likely candidate for text editor in such experiment.
- nerdponx 9y agoWhat options even exist outside of ex in that case?
- yorwba 9y agoIf you want something even more bare-bones than ex or ed, you could use cat as a write-only editor. In combination with head and tail, replacing parts of a file would be possible as well.
- yjftsjthsd-h 9y agoOr sed, which for many editing purposes is probably easier to use.
- yorwba 9y agoSure, but sed is basically just ed in non-interactive mode, so not very different from ex. And ex on my system is basically just vim without instant redraw after each change. And then you're back in terminal-GUI land. It's interesting how the ancestors of modern editors are still around as living fossils ...
- nerdponx 9y agoI suppose you could also use TECO: http://almy.us/teco.html http://almy.us/teco.html