Re:Xi: an editor for the next 20 years [video]
by sgillen on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @03:51PM
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Even emacs is not installed by default on most operating systems. Even worse a lot of people customize their emacs setup so much that using the default setting can be painful.
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Re:Xi: an editor for the next 20 years [video]
by lorenzhs on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @05:19PM
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I use tramp-mode to connect to remote systems, which provides comfortable editing without requiring anything other than ssh access to the target machine. It’s quite nice.
Re:Xi: an editor for the next 20 years [video]
by jjrh on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @05:08PM
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A emacs-tiny would be nice. Emacs package is just too large to be a default. On servers I usually just install mg/zile/jed.
Re:Xi: an editor for the next 20 years [video]
by eadmund on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @10:29PM
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> On servers I usually just install mg/zile/jed.
I normally just use TRAMP. For those who've not used it, it's an incredible little emacs package which gives one a very Plan-9-esque feeling, in the sense that all the different systems one connects to feel like one whole.
As an example, when one is editing a remote file shell-command runs commands on the remote system, and of course find-file and friends work exactly like normal — only looking at files on the remote system.