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I started with them. First Cloud9, then Nitrous and eventually, I ended with...

- A cheap VM on Digital Ocean close to my location

- tmux

- vim

I have never been so productive before and they give me more flexibility than any cloud dev service at a much cheaper price point. And now after two or three years, I am a tmux, vim, console pro. Everything else compared feels slow and limited.

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I did this for a few years. It was really great. I could take snapshots of my dev environment and when inevitably installed too many vim plugins just reset back to my last good 'state'.

This. What else is a cloud dev environment supposed to provide?

What size droplet do you use and what kind of apps do you develop on it?

I see the cheapest one has only 512MB RAM.

It is VIM, not Eclipse. A few megabytes of memory is really all you need.

Depends if you also want to run tests, like one often does in their local machines.

I have the $10 package with 1GB RAM but the smaller one for $5 with 512MB should also work (depending on your use case/dev environment).

Until you need a solid search that spans across the nested directories then you start wasting significant time with regular expression and complex commands.

FZF? Works in Vim and on the command line.

https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

Looks like it searches the filenames, I am referring to file contents. Does it support that?

No, but what about locate, grep and find?

Locate is the fastest, find is the slowest and grep is the most complex but also the most versatile one of these since you can use regexes.

It's the shell and you can use anything you want.

Locate searches the filenames, too.

GNU grep should be able to handle a few hundred small files easily for a few MB of free ram...

Yeah, but it's not as convenient as a GUI search in, say, Sublime.

That's debatable. For me, typing "gr <expression>" (my abbreviation for recursive grep) is quite fast and convenient.

I really like ack over grep, and there's a vim plugin too.

https://github.com/mileszs/ack.vim

Nope. https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

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