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From: Phillip Frabott <nntp@fulltermprivacy.com>
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Subject: Re: What programs do you make sure are installed on a new Linux
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2024 09:42:03 -0500
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On 11/16/2024 04:31, D wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 15 Nov 2024, Phillip Frabott wrote:
> 
>> nano
>> git
>> openssh
>> gnutls
>> links
>> bash
>> automake
>> autoconf
>> gcc
>> mutt
>> htop
>> iotop
>> gomuks
>> tmux
>> WordGrinder
>>
>> and that's it.
>>
>> When I'm done I go home and spend the evening with family.
> 
> Wordgrinder is not a common choice. Could you please tell me a bit about 
> it? Wat is it with wordgrinder that guys you joy when writing texts?

I should probably note, if it's not apparent in the list above, I live 
in bash. I do not use a WM day-to-day. I'm a purist shell-only user. 
WordGrinder is the only shell program I was able to find that has 
support great support for ODT, a format that I have to be able to use at 
work since almost all of our documents are either ODT or MD (Mostly 
ODT). It has a pretty decent spell checker that you can add to it's 
dictionary and has pretty good formatting support within the limitations 
of shell (You won't be adding images, but I don't get paid enough to 
make documentation with pretty pictures anyways). It is probably the 
most feature-rich shell application I've found so far. You can look at 
it here if you want: https://cowlark.com/wordgrinder/

If you have a recommendation for something other then WordGrinder that 
works without any Xorg/X11 components installed though, I'd be happy to 
try it out. It has to support opening and saving (or 
importing/exporting) into ODT and MD formats and must be able to compile 
source-only and no docker.

Before you ask, since you'll probably find me in another thread asking 
about Gentoo related to KDE, I do have Xorg installed on another machine 
but it's only for the small sliver of time where I have to test a 
desktop program I'm writing for the company I work for. And I use a 
separate machine for that. Most of my time is in headless code though so 
it's not often I have to boot it up.

-- 
Phillip Frabott
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