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Discussion on: What is your top tool that most devs would be surprised you use regularly?

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Nick Scialli (he/him) β€’

The URL bar to convert rich text to plain text

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Madza β€’

Lol, I use Notepad for that xdd

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Seanmclem β€’

Vs code has never let me down for this purpose.

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Yury β€’

I use notepad/gedit for that. Also for writing anything longer than two sentences because the chance of expiring session is bigger than a chance of a system shut down

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Micha β€’

I'm doing that too xD

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RΓ©my πŸ€– β€’

I love when people paste AWS keys in there

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Francisco Quintero πŸ‡¨πŸ‡΄ β€’

Bro. This trick is so simple and yet useful but now only use it whenever CMD + SHIFT + paste doesn't remove formatting.

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Nick Scialli (he/him) β€’

Yeah, it’s an old habit that will die hard.

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Chris C β€’

Firefox also has the search bar which is one reason why I prefer it.

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Russell Jones β€’

Ctrl-T, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-W :)

One hand and you don't even have to take your finger off Ctrl.

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πŸ¦„N BπŸ›‘ β€’

No, I suspect most of us would not be surprised.

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Muhammad Azeez β€’

Many times I use Windows Run for that