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... and install emacs?

• mlang23 6y ago
  I am a strange beast when it comes to editor wars. I am indeed an Emacs user since roughly 25 years. However, being a sysadmin teaches you to be comfortable with vi since it is just not practical to install Emacs on every machine you have root access on. So I am actually happy to fire up vim to edit a config file.
  • lokedhs 6y ago
    Well, there is Tramp with the sudo edit method. To access the remote machine via ssh and then use sudo to root access the files: /ssh:user@localhost|sudo:localhost:/path/to/file This is using the multi-hop solution as explained here: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/tramp/Ad_002dhoc-multi_002dhops.html https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/tramp/Ad... https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/17725/how-to-sudo-save-file-in-tramp-mode https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/17725/how-to-sudo-...
• mrweasel 6y ago
  Why? ed is still available :-)