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		harrygeez on July 1, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Did Vim Become So Popular? I love emacs, but I taught myself to use vi because I know when I ssh into a remote server there will have a vi.

davidw on July 1, 2020 | [–]

Emacs has an edit-over-ssh mode that's pretty useful.

CodeGlitch on July 1, 2020 | | [–]

Yes Tramp mode.

dijit on July 1, 2020 | | | [–]

You can do that in vim via scp like this:

vim scp://user@myserver[:port]//path/to/file.txt

chupasaurus on July 1, 2020 | [–]

Even if it's a Cisco router and there are no text files other than a note.txt 'Here be dragons'

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