Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.nk.ca!rocksolid2!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: D Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: What programs do you make sure are installed on a new Linux Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2024 22:20:16 +0100 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: References: <8db593ab-0793-2b31-ebc3-922a5d2fc241@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="2789486"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="w/4CleFT0XZ6XfSuRJzIySLIA6ECskkHxKUAYDZM66M"; X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:61023 On Sat, 16 Nov 2024, Phillip Frabott wrote: > 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. Thank you for sharing! Very interesting. What type of work do you do where you are able to get by with only the shell? You must have a very kind employer! =) As for word processing, the usual suspects are vim, groff, latex and for converting documents back and forth, I think that pandoc is very common. But this is all hearsay, so I am sure there are others here in this group who know much more about it than I do.