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In my early 20s I was a Linux sysadmin contractor in the Midwest US and got dropped into a job site where the core team was being offshored. I had to quickly le
by semireg 4y ago
In my early 20s I was a Linux sysadmin contractor in the Midwest US and got dropped into a job site where the core team was being offshored. I had to quickly learn how to maintain HPUX, AIX and some Solaris boxes using docs in the form of word docs scattered across network drives. These old admins hated Linux… and I hated the unfamiliarity of the non-Linux systems. How could anyone live with a shell where tab completion wasn’t a feature? Gag!
- Cupertino95014 4y agoYou couldn't count on emacs being available on some random Unix system. Bad times, those were.
- seabrookmx 4y agoYou still can't.. many (most?) mainstream distros don't ship vim or emacs by default.
- ckolkey 4y agoEmacs, sure, but I've yet to find a distro without at least vim
- glandium 4y agoYou'll find smaller editors like nano or nvi installed by default more often than vim.
- sanxiyn 4y agoFedora made nano default in 2020: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/UseNanoByDefault https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/UseNanoByDefault
- HeckFeck 4y agoOh, you, IBM. I'm more of an $ apt remove --purge nano > /dev/null man myself.
- eddyfromtheblok 4y agothe bare minimum at one point was just ed(1), the line editor. vi (without the m) wasn't a guarantee. I had an all-purpose cshrc that added /usr/ucb because vi was installed there on some systems, along with other BSD programs
- ShredKazoo 4y agoWhat does /usr even mean?
- lproven 4y agoAs I understand it, historically, it was the tree for user home directories. The two main designers, `dmr` and `ken`, built tools in their home directories under there and shared stuff from there. Then they ran out of space and needed to spill over onto another drive, so home directories got moved to `/home`.
- WhyNotHugo 4y agoUnix Shared Resources, if I recall correctly.
- aap_ 4y agoUnfortunately many distros aren't even shipping ed anymore.
- mongol 4y agoNixOS
- Cupertino95014 4y agoSame here. It was called "vi" and not "vim" as I recall, but it was always there.
- seabrookmx 4y agoHave you used Ubuntu or Fedora? Both default to nano. IIRC Ubuntu atleast comes with vi, but vi != vim.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y agoI feel the same way today when I can't tab complete parameter or variable names in typical unix shells.