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		iso1631 3 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The original vi is a product of its time (and its ... I get why OSes come with nano as the default editor, but it's so confining and slow to use when you're used to vim (or I'm sure emacs)

matrss 3 days ago [–]

Emacs is a bit special in that the "canonical" way of editing a remote configuration file with it is probably using TRAMP, i.e. connecting your local emacs via ssh to edit the remote file as if it was local.

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