Making Emacs popular again

Posted May 7, 2020 14:09 UTC (Thu) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)
In reply to: Making Emacs popular again by amacater
Parent article: Making Emacs popular again

If you're going to be in that environment, it's worth knowing vi keystrokes because that's what you'll get.

I once saw a router which didn't even have vi, only ed... The actual recommended method to change configuration was to download the configuration via FTP, edit locally, then upload via FTP.

Making Emacs popular again

Posted May 10, 2020 13:39 UTC (Sun) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

That's basically what I do for Windows and macOS development except that `git diff > foo.patch && scp foo.patch` is the normal transport medium. Sure, there's Vim, but that's mostly just good enough to make the change; integrating it into the rest of the workflow ends up back on one of my main machines.

Making Emacs popular again

Posted Jul 8, 2020 8:03 UTC (Wed) by debacle (subscriber, #7114) [Link]

If the device supports FTP, you can just using Emacs with TRAMP, I assume?