On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 1:16 PM Anselm Lingnau <[email protected]> wrote:
> Bryan J Smith wrote: > > > Vi is absent, and other text editors installed? Really? > > Did I really age fast and miss that? Huh? > > You don't need an editor installed at all if you have sshd running (which > you'd want to, anyway, in order to use Ansible or similar tools). And now you switch to my way of thinking. ;) I.e., you have to conceed Vi != sendmail, and that Vi is still the _default_, if any. ;) That if we're talking about reducing/removing Vi, we're really talking about removing 'interactive' altogether? If so, agreed! ;) Many text editors these days make it quite convenient to edit files > remotely by using > ssh, scp, or similar tools to copy content back and forth, so you can run > the > editor of your choice (including vim, if you must) on the big-ass > graphical > workstation under your desk in order to edit files on the editor-less > “minimal” virtual machine somewhere in the cloud. This is particularly > nice > because that editor can be the editor you're using for everything else, > too, > like code, documentation, e-mail, or papers, so you don't need to switch > mentally between “real-work editor” and “minimal-system editor” mode. So you're advocating _exactly_ what I started this thread for! It's not about reducing Vi's importance for 'interactive' so other questions can be asked. It's about removing text editing altogether. Agreed! Why didn't you just say you agreed with me then? ;) - bjs
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