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Why is this easier than opening a text editor?
by togaen 5y ago
Why is this easier than opening a text editor?
- bauerd 5y agoIt is not about opening a text editor. It's about what you would type into that editor. The value provided is in the templates, not in the editor.
- system2 5y agoIf someone is writing readmes all the time, why wouldn't that person have a pandadoc or similar template for this task?
- Phil-bitplex 5y agoYou're exactly right - if you're writing readme's all the time, you'd have templates ready to go. I only write readme's maybe once every few months or perhaps once a year, and having a template (interactive like this one, or otherwise) that someone else has thought about is super useful to me.
- crubier 5y agoLol not sure if this is a joke or not. Who writes readmes all the time? And where does the project state that it targets these people ?
- stunt 5y agoI think that meant to be a joke. I actually do create a few README files every month (cos of Microservices), but I still don't understand why someone would use a tool to generate README files.
- lobocinza 5y agoI wrote a README.md template because I started a bunch of projects of my own in the last month but I haven't used it so far and it is not more than a bunch of headers plus a license boilerplate.
- max-ibel 5y agoActually, I'd love an emacs extension for that use case. There probably are 12 already, a few within org mode ...
- zmix 5y agoIt's not. Especially not, if you have a "New Readme File" template, that even does template expansions. But to have something like this open along with that template would be really cool (and probably a resource hog to the editor/IDE, heh!)