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Le 30-09-2024, Phillip Frabott <nntp@fulltermprivacy.com> a écrit :
> In reply to "Lester Thorpe" who wrote the following:
>
>> On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 19:05:12 -0000 (UTC), Phillip Frabott wrote:
>> 
>> > Now I haven't looked at Cooledit myself but I would have to ask what
>> > exact technological issue is Cooledit solving that other software does not
>> > already solve?
>> 
>> It's a fucking text/programming editor.  What major "innovations"
>> can any simple text/programming editor bring?  Would you like it
>> to wash your soiled, shit-stained underwear as well.  Idiot.
>> 
>> You are obviously caught up in some bizarre and illusory idealism.
>> 
>> Cooledit does the job.  Furthermore, its GUI is dependent only
>> on X Window libraries and thus is immune to the GTK+/Qt bullshit.
>> 
>> Actually, if one uses the Midnight Commander (MC) file manager, then one
>> is using basal cooledit because the MC edit uses the same code base.
>> 
>> Cooledit is not perfect but it is FOSS and thus it depends on contributions
>> from the FOSS community.
>> 
>> But it is quite apparent that you are just another GNU/Linux freeloader who
>> wants freedom, only as in beer, without giving anything in return.
>> 
>> So fuck your idealism.  Any program that does the job of existing programs
>> is certainly worthy of consideration.
>
> So to be clear the technological issue that Cooledit tries to solve is that 
> other editors have a dependency on GTK/Qt and Cooledit doesn't. I'm 
> understanding that correctly, yes?

That was exactly my point in my previous answer to your message: he has
no clue. If someone wants a text editor without any dependencies with
any graphical library, being GTK+/QT or another, there are a lot of
possibilities. A lot of text editors can be launched in a terminal.

> I can see that you've had a lot of people against you for Cooledit

No. Nobodies here knows cooledit. Nobody here cares about cooledit.
Everyone here is against him for being himself. Read his answer to you
again if you don't understand. I let it on purpose.

> as I can see at least 2 weeks of back and forth so I'm going to give
> you a pass on your argumentative reply.

If you really expect it you will be disappointed.

> I'm not trying to argue with you.

Good idea.

> I'm just wanting to understand the purpose of Cooledit and what would
> be the selling point of it for someone to choose it over something
> else.

You would have to ask to someone who use it. He's promoting it because
nobody knows about it and because it looks old which will be despised by
some here (I don't care aboot the look and feal of a text editor because
I don't need a mouse, so I can hide the menus and I don't see it's look
and feal).

> Not having to rely on GTK/Qt or any 
> other X UI framework is a pretty good selling point.

Vim, Emacs, nano for a start. I hate nano but I don't care if others are
using it.

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