Re:Xi: an editor for the next 20 years [video]
by cortesoft on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @04:32PM
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I am guessing he works at a place that has a lot of servers that he connects to, and he wants to be able to use his editor on whatever server he is on.
I know this is an issue where I work. We have 40 thousand plus servers, and we aren't going to have everyone install their editor of choice on all those machines. If I have an issue I need to check on a server that requires some text editing, I have to use one of the default editors.
Re:Xi: an editor for the next 20 years [video]
by frou_dh on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @05:18PM
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This is the appeal of sshfs - to be able to easily mount remote filesystems and use local tools against them.
Re:Xi: an editor for the next 20 years [video]
by erk__ on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @07:14PM
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One of the best tools I have used with something like this is emacs's tramp-mode. It just works when you connect to another host.
Re:Xi: an editor for the next 20 years [video]
by ivrrimum on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @07:39PM
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Yeah, but sshfs has been working pretty slow to me.
There is actually this neat hack you can use(if you use VIM) with rsync.
https://github.com/IvRRimum/rsync-vim
I know it's kind of Hacky, but the performance improvement is worth it IMO.
Re:Xi: an editor for the next 20 years [video]
by myrandomcomment on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @06:11PM
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As the other poster guessed, vi is there on any system I log into that runs some form of Unix, including switch hardware.
For instance, notepad is default on windows, and I'll use that when needed on vanilla windows machines, but for the 99% of my editor needs I install and customize a number of enviroments (including Vim). I don't mind whether it's installed by default or not.