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Something I've come to rediscover is how good vi/vim is on a slow network connection. Our sharp networking team route me from London to Sydney so I can remote b
by bsdz 6y ago
Something I've come to rediscover is how good vi/vim is on a slow network connection. Our sharp networking team route me from London to Sydney so I can remote back to my London PC.
Seeing what you type several seconds after you typed it is reminiscent of the 90s and dial up connections.
Having familiar vi keybindings in so many applications these days has been a productivity saver.
- microtherion 6y agoOne editor which used to be great at this is sam, which was explicitly designed to work across slow links, by being split into a frontend running locally, and a backend being run on the target host: http://sam.cat-v.org http://sam.cat-v.org
- earthscienceman 6y agoAn alternative to that is to run mosh and it will make assumptions about where the characters should be going.
- shmoogy 6y agoMosh is so good if you commute and work via LTE
- RMPR 6y ago>Having familiar vi keybindings in so many applications these days has been a productivity saver. There's even a list[0] for that, Vi is the beast. 0: https://vim.reversed.top/ https://vim.reversed.top/
- MaxBarraclough 6y ago> Our sharp networking team route me from London to Sydney so I can remote back to my London PC. Is there are story here? This must annoy the whole office!