Jason LefkowitzWhat being a Windows user is like in 2025
xinit ☕@jalefkowit I just assumed everyone installed Notepad++ and moved past notepad.exe.
@jalefkowit Using notepad.exe on Windows feels like those times when you go to edit something on a *nix system and you're dumped into nano instead of vi.
arclight@xinit @jalefkowit Yes, this.
@arclight This is how I end up with ":q!" in my crontab
1000millimeter
bytebroThank the deities for vim!
'vi' was such a bastard to learn in the 90s, that I could never be arsed to go through such pain again, so now I use gvim on my Linux machine at home, and my Windows laptop at work, and have evolved a moderately busy .vimrc config file that works for both. That, plus 14yrs of coding in Perl, mean that I am now the in-house regex guru 😂
@bytebro I have never really liked using gvim because I normally work in the terminal on remote systems (without X forwarding) and I never really liked how it looked. I try again every couple years, though. Maybe some day.
Michael Jack@xinit @bytebro @1000millimeter @arclight @jalefkowit
At work, I use Windows Terminal with Powershell 7 as default terminal application.
Run "winget install vim.vim" to install vim and gVim, and add "C:\Program Files\Vim\vim91" to your Path environment variable.
I feel naked without a sane editor when working in a terminal.