Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in your terminal

Re:Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in y... by pessimizer on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @04:46AM (#24978056)

I don't use plugins just because I don't know what or whose system I'm going to be using vim on. The reason I use vim is because it's everywhere. When I started programming, I used emacs, and actually dropped it years later for that reason.

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Re:Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in y... by svennek on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @10:44AM (#24980644)

That is also the case for me.. I log into 50+ different boxes with different security policies (due to different orgs) every week..

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Re:Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in y... by sneak on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @10:57AM (#24980756)

I used to be this way for a decade+, then I learned that vim can open and save scp: urls. (Note: it has a weird scp url syntax you have to look up.) Coupled with a fancy ~/.ssh/config that sets per-host ProxyCommands and such, now I always edit locally.

Correspondingly, I have a lot of cool plugins in my .vimrc now, and my editor works better.

Bonus: no remote echo typing lag! (Yes, I know about mosh.)

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Re:Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in y... by wang_li on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @03:28PM (#24983619)

Not everyone is ok with you exfiltrating their data to your computer.

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Re:Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in y... by sneak on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @03:34PM (#24983665)

If you're running the ssh client on your own computer, even with a remote editor, the file you're editing via ssh is being exfiltrated to your computer regardless, just in a different format.

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Re:Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in y... by svennek on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @11:05AM (#24980841)

I am not always allowed to bring my own laptop to the network...

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Re:Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in y... by sneak on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @11:07AM (#24980857)

Do they make you use the console with a paperclip and a DB-9, too?! That’s gotta be a bummer.

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Re:Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in y... by svennek on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @11:17AM (#24980954)

No, but no "foreign" computers... We can have tools installed, but even though those are windows machines (I run linux on my laptop) my only "custom" tools are a good ssh-client and firefox :)

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Re:Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in y... by dingaling on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @07:10AM (#24978895)

vi is everywhere, vim less so.

The *BSDs come with vi for example

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Re:Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in y... by the5avage on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @03:36AM (#24987329)

A fresh install of Debian also comes with vi and not with vim. It's actually ridiculous if you think about the fact that vim was published 1991

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Re:Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in y... by svennek on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @10:42AM (#24980621)

For me, "downgrading" to vi (vs. vim) is only a slight annoyance..

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Re:Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in y... by oblio on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @06:36AM (#24978678)

Are you a consultant?

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