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Windows 11 logo Linux logo - 'Tux'

Software >
Windows, Linux >

(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about

A way to run Linux commandline software from a specialized console, similar to how a command prompt runs DOS or PowerShell.

It works well, but it’s imperfect.

  • aka wsl
  • Sometimes mis-named Bash on Ubuntu on Windows or Bash on Windows

See also:



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Geany logo

Software > Text editors >

(on Wikipedia)
Homebrew: geany
Chocolatey: geany
https://www.geany.org/

Geany is a GTK2 (GUI) text editor which is light and featureful. Here is a sampling of features from their about page:

  • Syntax highlighting
  • Code folding
  • Symbol name auto-completion
  • Construct completion/snippets
  • Auto-closing of XML and HTML tags
  • Call tips

This is a editor that does such magical things as use control up/down to skip paragraphs. I love it for in-page bookmarking, code folding, search-replace, escaped-replaces and regular expressions for selections, documents and groups of documents.

  • The package geany-plugins is important..
  • I also (sometimes) use Leafpad.



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Classic Widgets logo

Software > WordPress > WordPress Plugins >

https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/classic-widgets/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-widgets/

Turn the widgets functionality back into the old plain text stuff and not whatever this fancy blocks thing is.



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