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    Me giving advice about text editors (lemmy.world)
    submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    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 without nano.

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    vi is part of the POSIX standard, so it'll be available in some form on almost anything UNIX-flavoured

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Which is a great reason to at least familiarize yourself with it. It's the lingua franca of text editors.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Unless you wanted to learn to use ed (which you don't)

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

    ed is sadly not installed by default on some modern distros. Even vi is often a symlink to vim in vi-mode.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

    Really? Not that I'd notice, but I assumed ed was so tiny that there wouldn't be any reason to not include it. (Ubuntu has it and it's 59KB)

    Asking for vi and getting vim is just a pleasant surprise :)

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    :q!