Indeed. I was talking entirely about the idea of doing it by choice, not by practical necessity. The server angle is quite often mentioned one level up from co

Indeed. I was talking entirely about the idea of doing it by choice, not by practical necessity. The server angle is quite often mentioned one level up from configuration files to advocate choosing e.g. vi, period, since it's guaranteed by POSIX to be available. But I think that angle is actually becoming less convincing over time, because poking around on servers in interactive sessions is becoming less common now that ops has had a lot of time to evolve. To be fair to slugbyte_, I was not entirely responding to them and in part was just having a general rant against asinine forms of minimalism (which I think are somewhat common in dev circles and have on occasion fallen into myself).