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Is installing an editor really such a hardship?

• dllthomas 5y ago
  Usually not, sometimes very much so.
• yakubin 5y ago
  In "linux embedded", absolutely. You take what's there. At some point I even had a debugging session through TeamViewer connected to a Windows machine which had Terraterm open connected to serial port of a linux box. Unfortunately, there was a lot of spam on the serial port, so even using vi was impossible, because the screen got garbled pretty fast. So I printed the files with cat, worked out a set of sed commands to get those files to the desired state and typed them back in. Crazy. But real. (Add to that communicating with a guy on-site over notepad.exe. Mr. Robot vibes.)
• orthoxerox 5y ago
  Yes, because your sysadmins won't give you sudo, so you must scp a copy of nano into your home dir. Surprise, it's an AIX server running on Power, so your x86 nano won't run. Does building one from source count as hardship?