@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 2 months agoMe giving advice about text editorslemmy.worldmessage-square186fedilinkarrow-up1962
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minus-squareSemi-Hemi-LemmygodlinkfedilinkEnglish12•2 months 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]linkfedilink13•2 months agovi is part of the POSIX standard, so it’ll be available in some form on almost anything UNIX-flavoured
minus-squareSemi-Hemi-LemmygodlinkfedilinkEnglish9•2 months agoWhich is a great reason to at least familiarize yourself with it. It’s the lingua franca of text editors.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink9•2 months agoUnless you wanted to learn to use ed (which you don’t)
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•edit-22 months agoed is sadly not installed by default on some modern distros. Even vi is often a symlink to vim in vi-mode.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•2 months agoReally? Not that I’d notice, but I assumed ed was so tiny that there wouldn’t be any reason to not include it. (Ubuntu has it and it’s 59KB) Asking for vi and getting vim is just a pleasant surprise :)
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
viinstalled, 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)
ed is sadly not installed by default on some modern distros. Even vi is often a symlink to vim in vi-mode.
Really? Not that I’d notice, but I assumed
edwas so tiny that there wouldn’t be any reason to not include it. (Ubuntu has it and it’s 59KB)Asking for
viand gettingvimis just a pleasant surprise :):q!