Jynx [0],[1] and Jandal [2] phosted on their favorite programs, and

Jynx [0],[1] and Jandal [2] phosted on their favorite programs, and
use of the Unix console in particular. I love hearing about how
other people work in the console so I can try out new utilities or
ways of getting things done.

My most-used console programs - in no particular order:

- Emacs
- mutt
- lynx/elinks
- screen
- Perl
- Bash
- moc (an excellent music collection organizer/player)
- curl
- ssh
- rsync

And of course all of the standard Unix programs less, find, grep,
sed, etc. I tend to use perl a lot in place of sed/awk, I'm pretty
comfortable with perl5 and see no reason to not use it as a better
replacement for those utilities [3]. I use vim at work sometimes,
simply because it is available on every server I manage, even though
I prefer emacs. I keep threatening to switch fully to vim but my
muscle memory is strong with emacs - I also make heavy use of emacs'
git integration, dired and ediff modes, so it's an extra hurdle for
me to re-learn my workflow via the equivalent vim scripts or
plugins.

I do prefer an all-console environment, although during the day when
I'm at work this is not possible. My work desktop is Debian Jesse
and XFCE - this gives me all I need on that front. Otherwise my
personal email and websites are on my own remotely hosted server, so
my connection is via ssh and I use mutt for processing mail right on
the server (same as on SDF). That is also Debian, although when it
comes time to upgrade or move servers I will probably switch to one
of the BSDs. The current move to systemd by pretty much all the
mainstream Linux distros makes me ill.

[0] gopher://sdf.org/0/users/jynx/dat/20171209.post
[1] gopher://sdf.org/0/users/jynx/dat/20171209.post
[2] gopher://grex.org/0/~jandal/phlog/favourite-programs-or-not
[3] See 'Minimal Perl for Unix and Linux People' by Tim Maher