renzev@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 hours agoMe giving advice about text editorslemmy.worldimagemessage-square104fedilinkarrow-up1654arrow-down140
arrow-up1614arrow-down1imageMe giving advice about text editorslemmy.worldrenzev@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 hours agomessage-square104fedilink
minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 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-squarekattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·42 minutes agovi is part of the POSIX standard, so it’ll be available in some form on almost anything UNIX-flavoured
minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·27 minutes agoWhich is a great reason to at least familiarize yourself with it. It’s the lingua franca of text editors.
minus-squarekattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 minutes 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)