@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 18 hours agoMe giving advice about text editorslemmy.worldmessage-square112fedilinkarrow-up1693
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minus-squareSemi-Hemi-LemmygodlinkfedilinkEnglish6•5 hours agoI tend to work on customer systems where I’m not allowed to install anything. I’ve yet to encounter one that doesn’t have vi installed, but I’ve seen a few without nano.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•3 hours agovi is part of the POSIX standard, so it’ll be available in some form on almost anything UNIX-flavoured
minus-squareSemi-Hemi-LemmygodlinkfedilinkEnglish3•3 hours agoWhich is a great reason to at least familiarize yourself with it. It’s the lingua franca of text editors.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•2 hours agoUnless you wanted to learn to use ed (which you don’t)
I tend to work on customer systems where I’m not allowed to install anything. I’ve yet to encounter one that doesn’t have
vi
installed, but I’ve seen a few withoutnano
.vi is part of the POSIX standard, so it’ll be available in some form on almost anything UNIX-flavoured
Which is a great reason to at least familiarize yourself with it. It’s the lingua franca of text editors.
Unless you wanted to learn to use ed (which you don’t)