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> 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

> 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 9y 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 9y ago
Depends on where you work. It could easily be 100% of the ssh connections you make.
- oblio 9y ago
  His point still stands because the vast majority of people have nothing to do with those systems :)
  - soperj 9y ago
    Vast majority of people have never even heard of VIM.
    - jcelerier 9y ago
      Let's say "the vast majority of people using SSH"
yjftsjthsd-h 9y ago
As sibling noted, it depends on where you work. I've seen AIX and Solaris still in use.
pjmlp 9y ago
The kind of companies where budgets for Oracle and DB2 licenses are rounding errors.