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Vi or Vim (programming.dev)

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[–] mhague 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Which one is consistently good though

[–] mkwt 5 points 3 months ago

Vim is the main modern project under active development. vi is the original software from old UNIX. On most Linux nowadays, vi opens vim in vi emulation mode.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

vi is basically gonna be on every Linux based machine until the end of time. Nano usually needs to be installed, which in corpo environments, you may not have the ability to do that. I made my peace with vim for sysadmin stuff or simple changes like editing yaml files. Vi also has some pretty good features out of the box which are good to learn.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I was about to resign myself to vi but then I learned that in Emacs you can use tramp to remotely edit files.

So now I can use my configured preferences for emacs on any online server which includes the vi keybindings via evil-mode.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

vim scp://user@myserver[:port]//path/to/file.txt can also accomplish this in vim, FWIW.