Re:Even more hindsight on Vim, Helix and Kakoune
by zambal on Thursday June 22, 2023 @08:15AM
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> If anyone has experience with remote editing in a terminal editor, but not through an ssh shell (ie, the traditional way), I'm very interested in hearing your experience.
As usual, emacs has a mode for everything:
Re:Even more hindsight on Vim, Helix and Kakoune
by akho on Thursday June 22, 2023 @12:36PM
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Emacs’ TRAMP works well (it’s been available since at least '99, and has been built-in for as long as I can remember), and supports most everything (ssh, ftp, docker, whatever you can get at with rclone, ...). It also works fine with dired (the built-in file manager), eshell, whatever.
The mostly-single-threaded nature of Emacs gets in the way sometimes.
It does sound to me like that is not a consequence of the GUI-ness of VSCode, but just the man-hours that go into making it. In other words, it doesn't sound like that experience can't be replicated in terminal-only editors.
If anyone has experience with remote editing in a terminal editor, but not through an ssh shell (ie, the traditional way), I'm very interested in hearing your experience.