[dev] Is there a text editor following the UNIX philosophy?

2022-02-11 Thread Daniel Littlewood
Hi all, There was a recent chat about cat -v & single-purpose programs which has been rattling around my head for the last few weeks. There are *many* bloated code editors (atom, vscode, etc.), but most people usually present either emacs or vim as an alternative. I can't see these as any less blo

Re: [dev] Is there a text editor following the UNIX philosophy?

2022-02-11 Thread craekz
On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 11:47:56AM +, Daniel Littlewood wrote: > It seems to me like the obvious alternative workflow would be, rather > than to have a single monolithic program for the general job of > "editing text" (which is really lots of jobs pretending to be one), > one might have a progr

Re: [dev] Is there a text editor following the UNIX philosophy?

2022-02-11 Thread Greg Reagle
Are you aware of sam, acme, and vis? https://github.com/martanne/vis

[dev] sfeed: RSS/Atom parser and reader

2022-02-11 Thread Hiltjo Posthuma
Hi, I would like to share my project I've been using and tweaking over the years: sfeed is a RSS and Atom parser (and it has some format programs). It converts RSS or Atom feeds from XML to a TAB-separated file. There are formatting programs included to convert this TAB-separated format to vario

Re: [dev] sfeed: RSS/Atom parser and reader

2022-02-11 Thread Sebastiano Tronto
Hello, > I would like to share my project I've been using and tweaking over the years: > > sfeed is a RSS and Atom parser (and it has some format programs). > [...] Thank you Hiltjo for this nice piece of software. I have been using it for a while now and I really enjoy its flexibility. As a tes

Re: [dev] Is there a text editor following the UNIX philosophy?

2022-02-11 Thread Kyryl Melekhin
craekz wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 11:47:56AM +, Daniel Littlewood wrote: > > It seems to me like the obvious alternative workflow would be, rather > > than to have a single monolithic program for the general job of > > "editing text" (which is really lots of jobs pretending to be one),

Re: [dev] Is there a text editor following the UNIX philosophy?

2022-02-11 Thread Kyryl Melekhin
Daniel Littlewood wrote: > Hi all, > > There was a recent chat about cat -v & single-purpose programs which > has been rattling around my head for the last few weeks. There are > *many* bloated code editors (atom, vscode, etc.), but most people > usually present either emacs or vim as an alternat