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Re:How Did Vim Become So Popular? by harrygeez on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @11:33PM (#23697494)
I love emacs, but I taught myself to use vi because I know when I ssh into a remote server there will have a vi.
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Re:How Did Vim Become So Popular? by davidw on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @12:55AM (#23697866)
Emacs has an edit-over-ssh mode that's pretty useful.
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Re:How Did Vim Become So Popular? by CodeGlitch on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @05:37AM (#23699645)
Yes Tramp mode.
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Re:How Did Vim Become So Popular? by dijit on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @05:42AM (#23699673)
You can do that in vim via scp like this:

vim scp://user@myserver[:port]//path/to/file.txt

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Re:How Did Vim Become So Popular? by chupasaurus on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @12:18AM (#23697694)
Even if it's a Cisco router and there are no text files other than a note.txt 'Here be dragons'
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