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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

If you're just doing a quick config edit, nano is significantly easier to use and is also present in most distros.

Vi/Vim is useful as a customizable dev environment, but in the present there are better, more feature-rich development tools - unless you are specifically doing a lot of development in a GUI-free system, for some reason.

[–] timbuck2themoon 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I mean, if youre continually updating files on remote take the time to learn vim. My God it's a million times more efficient. Even using the keybindings in an ide makes sense.

That and Im not aware that rhel distros at all have nano built in. Nothing on a random rocky 9 box I randomly sshed into just now.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Helix crew chiming in. 🙋‍♂️

[–] timbuck2themoon 2 points 2 weeks ago

I need to give this a go again. Tried it a while back but wasn't impressed enough to keep it. Been using pulsar since which has mostly been nice.

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