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    [–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I used to think this way. Until I found that with emacs you can edit any file on an SSH enabled computer remotely. Meaning that not only are you no longer constrained by what the computer has installed. But you can use your personality configured editor while editing that file. It's called tramp.

    BTW, with Emacs you can use vim key bindings evil-mode, so don't stress about that.

    [–] folkrav@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Tramp is more featured, but if all one cares about is being able to edit remote files using a local editor, vim can edit remote files with scp too: scp://user@server[:port]//remote/file.txt

    I tried tramp-mode at some point, but I seem to remember some gotchas with LSP and pretty bleh latency, which didn't make it all that useful to me... But I admittedly didn't spend much time in emacs land.

    [–] asyncopation@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

    I've also used sshfs to mount a remote directory and edit using my local editor/env.

    [–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    You can do that with vscode too. And probably many IDEs.

    The only real reason for which you would need to use vim in such cases is if the target computer can't run the vscode server, which I've never encountered yet.

    [–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    I'm talking about not needing anything installed on the server though. Like you don't need sudo. If the server has ssh then you can use Emacs to edit a file on it

    [–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

    Don't need sudo or anything pre installed for vscode either. It will send the server to the machine via SSH and then run it automagically.