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by robenkleene 2013 days ago
> it is ultimately quite silly that you need to use special URL schemes and workflows to open a text file across different apps.

Curious what you mean by this? Which additional mechanism does Linux (or i3?) have for opening a text file between apps?
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Out_of_Characte 2013 days ago
There is no additional mechanism, You just open text files as many times as you want with any program. (Unless I misunderstand the parent comments)
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yoz-y 2013 days ago
I think the confusion comes from the fact that the sentence mentions both macOS and iOS, whereas url schemes are an iOS-only concept.
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robenkleene 2013 days ago
Got it yeah, this is probably why I was confused. URL schemes are the only way to do a lot of things on iOS, whereas (as far as I know) they're additive to the *nix ways of doing things on the Mac.
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