And suddenly, you're hip

Re:And suddenly, you're hip by megamark16 on Sunday January 09, 2011 @01:21PM (#2085968)

I learned vim over emacs because vi is installed on every linux machine I have ever touched, so when I sit down to a server and I need to edit a config file, I try vim, then I use vi, and I always find one or the other. I just opened Terminal on my Ubuntu 10.10 machine and typed "emacs" and it informed me that it wasn't installed, but was available in a slew of packages.

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Re:And suddenly, you're hip by astrofinch on Monday January 10, 2011 @06:24AM (#2088120)

I never understood this rationale for learning vim. Do you really spend a lot of your development time on random Unix boxes you and all of your friends lack root access to?

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Re:And suddenly, you're hip by wladimir on Monday January 10, 2011 @10:52AM (#2088766)

These days, probably not that much, with the advent of virtualisation. But a decade ago there were a lot of shared shell servers in use with only a minimal install and a small per-user quota. So the rationale made sense...

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Re:And suddenly, you're hip by kentnl on Sunday January 09, 2011 @05:50PM (#2086701)

Probably a good reason to use Perl too, finding a machine without it is hard. =)

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