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My personal journey. My first editor was vi. Then I learned about emacs and used it for a few years. But I still had to use vi when I logged in remote machines
by corpMaverick 8y ago
My personal journey. My first editor was vi. Then I learned about emacs and used it for a few years. But I still had to use vi when I logged in remote machines that didn't have emacs. When vim came a long, it was almost as good as emacs and I could use it everywhere.
Conclusion: vi/vim was everywhere already.
Now days I use sublime. I still use vi/vim when using *nix servers.
- technofiend 8y agoSame. What forced me back to using ed, ex and vi was the then-design of unix: if you were in the middle of recovering a truly borked server then only the static binaries were available.