This is hilarious to me, after using the evil things for years . Of course, there are reasons to use the hated postman and companies (may they be forever cursed). And I plan to keep using them.

But many valid points are made

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    23 hours ago

    The only point I can say is that editing text on the terminal isn’t as simple as a regular text field. And AFAIK the only way to write a query on a regular text editor would be to write it, save to file, run file…

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      23 hours ago

      Pressing C-x C-e opens the current commandline in your default editor.

      As in what’s in your $EDITOR variable. If you haven’t touched it, it’s most likely Nano or some minimal vim

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      23 hours ago

      Couldn’t you write in the text editor then copy/paste into terminal without saving? (Who needs documentation anyway)