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Very ignorant comment. Many people work across multiple machines (hundreds) which they do not own and cannot spend time "setting up" on each one. "Easy to insta
by cup-of-tea 9y ago
Very ignorant comment. Many people work across multiple machines (hundreds) which they do not own and cannot spend time "setting up" on each one. "Easy to install" means one can start editing with it in seconds. Do you really think compiling a local copy of emacs or vim on some strange machine counts as "easy to install"?
- closeparen 9y agoWhy? I can see working on a handful of remote machines, because it's easier to set things up manually vs. set up a configuration management system at small scale. Otherwise you're editing Puppet manifests in a local text editor. What's the use case for editing files on hundreds of different machines?
- ssijak 9y agoCompiling vim? Where do you not have Vim by default? Or could not install it with the default systems package manager? I seriously did not ever login into a system that does not had vim installed, excluding windows obviously, but how many of us have windows servers to manage..
- cup-of-tea 9y agoI've certainly logged on to places without vim. They probably have vi, though.
- masukomi 9y agounless you're on a vax machine or something similarly ancient anything that says vi is actually vim.
- BenjiWiebe 9y agoWell, it's usually a trinmed down copy of vim, right? I just do a quick alias vim=vi and carry on.