Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor

Re:Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor by pschlump on Wednesday January 04, 2012 @08:08AM (#3423938)

That world is not completely gone! I use VI to connect to amazon AWS servers over a satellite link. It is faster than 1200 baud but with horrible latency. VI is the only editor that works.

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Re:Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor by pschlump on Wednesday January 04, 2012 @08:28AM (#3423990)

Right now I am sitting on a Sailboat in the Bahamas.

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Re:Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor by lhaussknecht on Wednesday January 04, 2012 @08:38AM (#3424022)

And reading HN with Lynx?

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Re:Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor by jamesgeck0 on Wednesday January 04, 2012 @09:40AM (#3424259)

How many monitors do you have? (:

http://secretgeek.net/jat_vc.asp

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Re:Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor by nathanwdavis on Wednesday January 04, 2012 @11:39AM (#3424747)

You really should get off HN and enjoy the sea.

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Re:Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor by pschlump on Wednesday January 04, 2012 @09:34PM (#3427067)

Tomorrow I will swim with fish. Today it is stormy and we are safely tucked in a protected harbor. I program when the weather is bad and swim when it is good.

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Re:Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor by Marwy on Wednesday January 04, 2012 @05:16PM (#3426172)

Maybe he did? Maybe he has been enjoying the sea for the past 12 hours? Jesus, you really don't have better things to do than making assumptions and sharing them with people?

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Re:Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor by apu on Wednesday January 04, 2012 @08:54PM (#3426940)

Please be nice.

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Re:Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor by msisk6 on Wednesday January 04, 2012 @12:02PM (#3424849)

I tried working from an RV via satellite link years ago. Very frustrating -- life is too short to deal with the latency. Nowadays with git and puppet this might actually work -- make changes and edits locally and deploy over the low-bandwidth, high-latency link.

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Re:Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor by StavrosK on Wednesday January 04, 2012 @06:34PM (#3426517)

I prefer having my local vi open the file through FTP. If you didn't know it could do that:

http://www.marksanborn.net/software/modify-remote-files-with...

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