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The availability of vim in some systems is not reliable. Often only either vi or nano is available. Containers may not have even that (not that it's a good prac
by goku12 3y ago
The availability of vim in some systems is not reliable. Often only either vi or nano is available. Containers may not have even that (not that it's a good practice to edit files inside containers. It's just for experiments). Emacs meanwhile, has tramp. It lets you edit files remotely and transparently - even inside Kubernetes pods. And you still get to use all your Emacs customization.
- j7ake 3y agoSomeone who uses vim daily will surely not struggle with vi.
- goku12 3y agoYou are right about that. What you will miss though, are the plugins and customization while making big edits.
- allarm 3y agoNever missed that on the remote systems. The out of the box vi/vim is powerful enough for most things.
- tmtvl 3y agoYou say that, I remember when my team lead was managing a Solaris box and he asked me to take a look as Vim was not working correctly. So I moseyed over and turns out it was Vi instead of Vim. He got confused by c$ not deleting everything to the end of the line.