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Who’s using terminal emulators and text editors in their browser?

Actually, don’t answer that. I’m afraid of the answer.



>text editors

google docs, WYSIWYG editors built into any number of webapps

>terminal emulators

ssh/serial consoles on whatever your hosting provider is. Sure, sometimes there's a command line tool to do the same on your OS's terminal emulator, but if it's for a task that you're doing once every few months (eg. recovering a bricked server), clicking a button on a website and getting a shell is just more convenient.


Wikipedia does. Every site with a CMS. Google docs.

Here to write in the comments you use a simple text editor.

Chrome dev tools can also be used to change the code directly. Quite convenient to have the same dev tool behave and look the same on all the different plattforms.

Also, everything ChromeOS related.

Was that so scary?


Never heard of Jupyter Notebook? And services like AWS also have editors and terminals, just like countless other sites.


If you're a cli jockey and you haven't tried using bash together with Jupyter, you've gotta give it a shot.




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