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Some people live in their editor and occasionally drop into a shell. I've personally found a lot less friction in doing the opposite. Live in the shell, and occ

Some people live in their editor and occasionally drop into a shell. I've personally found a lot less friction in doing the opposite. Live in the shell, and occasionally drop into your editor. I used to think that it would be better to have a lot of scripting and automation built into my editor, but there are so many well-built, connect-able tools already available in a unix shell that it's usually easier to write scripts in that context, instead. There are often easy ways to pull the outputs of those scripts into your editor or use your editor as a thin, pass-thru layer to run shell scripts on certain selected bits of text in a file.

PeterWhittaker 2y ago
This is mostly how I work as well, and has the advantage that when I need to poke around on servers and appliances on which I do not have my vim setup, I can still use a lot of my regular “tricks” because they are shell-based. Sure, sure, I do miss tpope’s surround and repeat plugins, but I have shell muscle memory and am happy(ish). IMHO, of course, YMMV. :-)
eikenberry 2y ago
+1 .. Came to say the same thing. My favorite IDE is the Unix shell. Multiple great editors to pick from, multiple and very flexible ways to hook all your tools together. Easy to use on remote systems. All of it free software.