Rig for Work

Oh my, I was almost one of those people who hesitate to

switch over to Linux because of Notepad++.

I mean, it has what I need to write. It has different tabs

so I can toggle between my outline and my work, and I was

able to noodle around and make it so switches tabs was bound

to key commands, so I could minimize the use of what I now

realize is a great work-flow fucker-upper, the mouse. I

imagine some of you are smiling knowingly (or perhaps

frowning with consternation) at where I am going.

Notepad++ put me in as good of a work-flow in terms of text

writing as I have been in years. I have been on a journey of

discovery with gemini, gopher, and sdf, and I have had set

my estimated switch over to Linux on my home computer to the

Winter Holiday, but then I discovered that Notepad++ was

only available on Windows. I did my due diligence (web

searches) and found that you found Notepadqq and the

suggestion that you run Notepad++ in Wine -- duh, and I'm

not even a Linux user at this point.

But then I got bored at work and decided I'd check out a

few things in terminal for Apple. I'm a school teacher by

trade, but my school district is an Apple shop.

I thought to myself, "what commands that I use on sdf

could work here?" And it turned out -- dang -- all of them

that I know. Next, I thought, "well, does it have Nano?"

And lo, and behold -- and dang! -- it has Nano.

Okay, that was going well. But I what I really want is to

be able to have more than one tab open. Oh, look, I can

do that. But I mean, the tabs won't just be bound to a

key combination, will they? Oh wow, just looking the

menus and there it is: command and the number.

So, now I have a set up that I like *better* than

Notepad++, as there are even fewer distractions and there

is more that I can do just with the keyboard. Time to

invoke the magic of the slogan: plain text is beautiful.

I may be speaking out of turn here, but I imagine this is

something I can replicate pretty easily in terminal on

a Linux distro.

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I'd love to hear from people. My email is the handle minus

"net" (so, a work by Voltaire that starts with "c"), at

sdf.org.

While we're adding boiler plate: this work is in the public

domain. Do what you want with it.