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I'm talking about programs that can't be improved no matter what. They do exactly what they're supposed to and will never be changed.

It'll probably have to be something small, like cd or pwd, but does such a program exist?

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[-] Sephtis@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago

Many might disagree, but imo vim is the perfect text editor for a command line interface. It's just so simpel and does exactly what I need it to do without doing anything unnecessary

[-] who@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Nit: vim is a visual editor. It has a text interface, but it's not a command line interface.

An example of a command line text editor would be sed.

[-] Sephtis@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago

I know it isn't a cli but a text editor that you can use in a terminal, if there's any other difference i got wrong feel free to correct me

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