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Choosing a text editor for Bash scripting

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Choosing a text editor for Bash scripting

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- [Instructor] In just a moment, we'll continue writing and composing scripts in the text editor. And before we do, I want to take some time to talk about text editors. In this course, I'm using the Visual Studio Code editor inside of Codespaces. If you're following along with me in Codespaces, I encourage you to do the same. Or, if you're working on your own system, VS Code is a good choice to work with there too. Others may prefer different tools that operate in the terminal interface. Nano is a lightweight editor that can be downloaded from the repository of your favorite distribution. If you have different text editor or distro preferences, that's fine. If you prefer Vim or emacs or ED or whatever, go right ahead and use it. Most editors will already be configured to highlight Bash syntax, and if they aren't, they can be configured to do so. The Codespaces environment I've built for this course includes some VS…

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