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My experience is the opposite. The reason that I use vim is because I frequently have to work in environments that I ssh into, where X forwarding is blocked or
by pavon 9y ago
My experience is the opposite. The reason that I use vim is because I frequently have to work in environments that I ssh into, where X forwarding is blocked or very poor due to latency. It became too painful to constantly switch back and forth between vim, emacs, eclipse, netbeans, etc, so I gave up and settled on the lowest common denominator.
- defined 9y agoNot to mention that many remote server environments may not even have X installed, or graphics cards, for that matter. I started using vi for much the same reason you did, having to troubleshoot via ssh (and telnet before that) in many variants of UNIX (tm) systems. When I got hold of Vim it was like Christmas for me. I started learning emacs some time back, but the learning curve (and fighting against Vim muscle memory) vs. needing to get work done for money soon convinced me to try again another day.
- AlexCoventry 9y agoEmacs works fine in no-X environments, FWIW. You're more likely to find vi just works without installing anything extra, though.