renzev@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoMe giving advice about text editorslemmy.worldimagemessage-square167fedilinkarrow-up1880arrow-down153
arrow-up1827arrow-down1imageMe giving advice about text editorslemmy.worldrenzev@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square167fedilink
minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 day 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-up10·1 day 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-up6·1 day 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-up7·1 day agoUnless you wanted to learn to use ed (which you don’t)
minus-squarepmk@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-218 hours agoed is sadly not installed by default on some modern distros. Even vi is often a symlink to vim in vi-mode.
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.
:q!
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.