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if you ever find yourself needing to modify files at the shell on any sort of remotely modern unix/linux system, you're probably going to have vi or vim availab

if you ever find yourself needing to modify files at the shell on any sort of remotely modern unix/linux system, you're probably going to have vi or vim available. it's worth knowing an editor that doesn't require 6GB of RAM and a graphical environment, but it's probably not going to be most folks' primary editor. ;d

IIsi50MHz 4y ago
<6 GB RAM? Sooo many choices. I started[1] programming on a 5 MB machine with ~4 MB free.[2] But I'm not allowed a GUI? Ok… then, I'll choose an editor with a keyboard-driven menubar across the top (keyboard shortcuts appearing in the menus), a status line on bottom, and as many keycombos that match my preferred GUI as possible. Failing that, I can muddle along with Nano. Until some once-in-20-years task actually requires using an arcane 'editor' that assumes I live in PDP-11. (^: [1] Wellll… I sometimes forget typing BASIC from magazines into an Apple II and making small changes. [2] And it was luxurious…until I tried to fit 8 MB of a CD-ROM app into compressed RAM.
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