How Did Vim Become So Popular?

Re:How Did Vim Become So Popular? by imtringued on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @04:26AM (#23699196)

sshing into a server invalidates all the time you spent on customizing your local vim.

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Re:How Did Vim Become So Popular? by alwillis on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @05:54AM (#23699733)

If you’re on your machine, you can do all of your stuff because you can edit files remotely from within Vim using SSH as the transport: http://usevim.com/2012/03/16/editing-remote-files

If you’re on a new machine, you can grab your dotfile repo from wherever you keep it—like GitHub for example—and you’ve got your complete config, since there just text files. Takes 5 minutes.

But even plain vanilla Vim is more than enough for many tasks on a new Unix/Linux box.

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Re:How Did Vim Become So Popular? by bjoli on Thursday July 02, 2020 @05:04AM (#23711342)

Not if you use Emacs/evil. Tramp invalidates most of the "well, vim is available on all my remote servers, whereas Emacs never is". I just remote into a server from within Emacs.

Evil is also the best and most complete vim experience outside of vim.

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