On 02/18/2012 09:10 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"James Miller"<ja...@aatch.net> wrote in message
news:mailman.523.1329551034.20196.digitalmar...@puremagic.com...
I would like to add a few more points.
I exclusively use (g)vim text editing, why? Because it means I can jump on
a console, SSH into a server, and it will probably have vim, or atleast
vi.
I've heard a lot of people say that about vi(m), but in my (admittedly
somewhat limited) experience, I've never come across a (Li|U)n[ui]x system
that didn't have nano or pico (neither of which are great, but they're good
enough for editing Unix configuration files, and I'm actually capable of
using them, unlike emacs or vim).
Vi's not that hard to use if you don't expect to be a power user.
But I prefer to do it like this: SSH into a server, but then also connect
via SSHFS (SSHFS is fucking *awesome*!). That way, no matter the server, I
can use *any* editor I want: kate, gedit, whatever.
How long does it take to get in via sshfs? If it take more than about 10
seconds to get started, that is a non-starter for some cases (I need to
edit one line of one config file on this server I touch less than once a
quarter.
If I'm using a server that doesn't already have ssh set up (for instance, if
I'm actually setting up ssh) *then* I'll either use nano/pico or, if I can,
I'll install mcedit which is the closest I've seen to what I would consider
a nice text-mode editor.
