• Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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    121 month ago

    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 without nano.

    • @[email protected]
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      131 month ago

      vi is part of the POSIX standard, so it’ll be available in some form on almost anything UNIX-flavoured

      • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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        91 month ago

        Which is a great reason to at least familiarize yourself with it. It’s the lingua franca of text editors.

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            1 month ago

            ed is sadly not installed by default on some modern distros. Even vi is often a symlink to vim in vi-mode.

            • @[email protected]
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              31 month ago

              Really? 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 :)