Comments on: That split-second realization

By: Links 30/4/2010: *Ubuntu 10.04 Release | Techrights

Links 30/4/2010: *Ubuntu 10.04 Release | Techrights — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:30:14 +0000

[...] That split-second realization It happened to me again yesterday. That moment everyone talks about, when a GUI program is suddenly inconvenient and obtrusive, and you realize that the console alternative is just plain faster and easier than clicking buttons and waiting for an interface to accomplish the same task. [...]

By: CorkyAgain

CorkyAgain — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:08:25 +0000

Whether the memory/disk footprint of Xorg should be counted against Leafpad depends on whether or not you use any other X apps. I have a hard time imagining someone firing up a GUI environment solely to use a text editor. The more common scenario is that the GUI is already running and serving several other applications. The “cost” of the GUI is distributed across that entire set of applications, and you have to look at the entire set to decide if it’s worth it.

Similarly, the console version of vim uses ncurses and various system libraries, but we typically don’t consider them part of its footprint, because other programs are also using them.

That said, many so-called shared libraries aren’t really shared and should be counted against the programs that installed them.

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:18:20 +0000

I was going to mention sed, but that would be waaay too geeky.

By: Joseph George

Joseph George — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:49:08 +0000

Hmmm… “vim is a monstrous 5441Kb”?

There are barebones flavours of vi available. If you wanted to cut it further, vi is available within busybox too! I myself use the vi provided by busybox, and it more than satisfies my requirements. Mind you, I’m not a programmer and I don’t have very complicated requirements.

By: Nugnuts

Nugnuts — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:43:48 +0000

But this time I needed to do a search-and-replace for a series of oddball characters in a text file

sed