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Yeah one of the major points towards vim is pretty much every unix environment has vim installed.

• pjmlp 8y ago
  Actually if you happen to ssh into the classical proprietary UNIX servers you might end up with plain old vi still. But yeah, that is why even I as Emacs user always bothered to at least know my way around vi, usually Emacs is most likely not installed.
  • jcelerier 8y ago
    > Actually if you happen to ssh into the classical proprietary UNIX servers you might end up with plain old vi still. Let's be honest: out of 10000000000's of SSH connections in a given 24 hours span, how many are to a "classical proprietary UNIX server"? 0.0001% maybe ? Is it really a use case worth optimizing for ? They should be treated as applicances, not as general-purpose computers.
    • bauerd 8y ago
      I'd add that if you have more than a handful of servers, and find yourself shelling into these and editing files by hand regularly, you're doing ops wrong
    • dman 8y ago
      Depends on where you work. It could easily be 100% of the ssh connections you make.
      • oblio 8y ago
        His point still stands because the vast majority of people have nothing to do with those systems :)
        • soperj 8y ago
          Vast majority of people have never even heard of VIM.
          • jcelerier 8y ago
            Let's say "the vast majority of people using SSH"
    • yjftsjthsd-h 8y ago
      As sibling noted, it depends on where you work. I've seen AIX and Solaris still in use.
    • pjmlp 8y ago
      The kind of companies where budgets for Oracle and DB2 licenses are rounding errors.