What else should I use?
The exception is when you go do some work at server using a commercial unix and that is not how it's set up (in fact they don't even know about vim)
sigh but ok that story is dated and that behavior was already dated at that time
I'm struggling to think of the last time I saw a commercial unix -- we still had solaris on some new machines until about 2006 - the last I remember was the x4500 with ZFS.
Our sun sysadmin contractor (whose full time job it was to look after about 10 solaris machines) was a big fan of ksh at the time.
But some companies are even slower to migrate
Anyway I don't know how the builtin shell was called, maybe simply sh but it was also a big no no for me
(though admittedly, with a somewhat unfortunate default config, at least for modern environments)
It has been my editor of choice over vim for many years now, and I'm super productive on it (though at this point, partly this stems from me having developed my own set of custom macros and helper utilities over the years).
Literally second paragraph.
Surely you're being sarcastic... aren't you?
Aren't you?!
"ssh username@ip and configure logs to be persisted for only 1 week."
Now: Which React Yoga Bun TypeScript Tailwind Node vomit is better for shipping 250k unchecked LOC? Florp Code or Blorp Codex?
We mourn our craft.
It doesn't hurt to know some basic vi/vim commands though, as you will mostly encounter them pre-installed on even the most exotic distribution.
Its major downfall is the commands are hardly intuitive, but I forced myself to learn it by doing everything in Vim (including shopping lists) and it now feels comfortable.
Then you have situations where you have no choice. I work for a company with over 100,000 servers and they only install Vim and disallow us installing anything else.
Not that we would have time; we’re in and out of each server in five minutes then on to the next ticket.
And I'm surprised this usually comes as a surprise to people, given nano provides the ability for both internal (i.e. macros) and external scripts to manipulate its buffer. In principle you could even run non-interactive vim commands through nano if you really wanted to.
I could never understand why anyone would use nano with its bs shortcuts, making basic text editing (in contrast to basic linear text writing, which even a non-modal editor like nano can do decently) into a complete *.
This is dumb. Sure, some people don't get modal editing. Others don't get how you could live without. It is almost as if people work differently and have different preferences.
"Just typing a sentence" is what I was referring to with "basic linear text writing", for which modal editing indeed does not bring much of a benefit. That's not text editing though.
> Instead of the snark, you could just admit that your preference doesn't align with the median user.
? I explicitly wrote that people work differently and have different preferences. What was snarky about that?
Besides, the median user does not edit configuration files via ssh, so they are hardly relevant here. The median user does not even know what a terminal is. If this was about the median user, then we would be discussing Word vs. Notepad, or whatever.