How have you avoided vim this long? What did you edit config files with? I guess...

nicoburns · on Sept 3, 2021

You can use graphical editors over SSH.

I personally tend to install micro, or use nano if that's not possible.

mytailorisrich · on Sept 3, 2021

If I just need to do a quick edit of a text file from the CLI I usually use nano, as well.

For dev. I use an graphical editor, usually VSCode these days. I used emacs at some point a long time ago.

The good thing with git and al is that there is no need to access a remote repo., and that's one of the points, so there is usually no need to edit source files remotely.

dec0dedab0de · on Sept 3, 2021

I had to google, I didn't realize nano was around 20 years ago. I didn't know it existed until about 2012, but I guess that makes sense then.