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Not everybody does, and not everybody who does that does it on all systems. A 5 second startup time for a text editor is extremely annoying when all you want t
by Scarblac 11y ago
Not everybody does, and not everybody who does that does it on all systems.
A 5 second startup time for a text editor is extremely annoying when all you want to do is, say, type some small commit message.
- xxpor 11y agoAgreed. Even as a regular emacs user, if I just want to quickly edit a config file on a remote box I just open nano or vim, because they open nearly instantly.
- ams6110 11y agoFor local quick edits of things like commit messages, you can run emacs as a daemon and use emacsclient as your editor command. For remote files there's tramp. But, I do agree that any sysadmin should know enough basic vi[m] to get around, because vi is almost always available on any unix system. Emacs (or nano) might not be installed.