Re:Modern terminal-based text editor
by hiram112 on Saturday September 30, 2017 @12:21AM
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I'm always 'that guy' who will eventually run 'sudo yum install emacs-nox' on any of our dozens of EC2 instances I'm shelled into if I'm working with it for more than a few minutes.
The problem is that some of these servers are already stripped down - it's even worse as we're moving to containers.
Emacs, even the non-gui version, still requires about a dozen dependencies, at least on most Debian and RHEL based servers. And each time I install it, I get some bad feeling in the back of my mind, wondering if I'm the one who opened a big hole into our infrastructure because I just wouldn't learn vim. :)
And yes I know about Tramp mode from my local machine, and other tricks, but sometimes it's easier to just install the damn editor locally.
The problem is that some of these servers are already stripped down - it's even worse as we're moving to containers.
Emacs, even the non-gui version, still requires about a dozen dependencies, at least on most Debian and RHEL based servers. And each time I install it, I get some bad feeling in the back of my mind, wondering if I'm the one who opened a big hole into our infrastructure because I just wouldn't learn vim. :)
And yes I know about Tramp mode from my local machine, and other tricks, but sometimes it's easier to just install the damn editor locally.