It’s a serious problem that’s been troubling admin’s for over a decade now. You sit, sweating in your cubicle waiting for the demand that you know is coming. Suddenly you will need to replace 17 patterns in a 20k line document or else your boss will be up your behind. Sure, you could SSH to some development box that someone barely knows exists. Or you may be lucky/demanding and have a jump box just waiting for your every command.
But what about that screaming fast, multi-core laptop that your company issued to you? Sure, it’s running winbloze, but that doesn’t make it useless. You know what you need? Some freeware loving, buddy. And here it comes in the guise of Gnu VIM client for Win32. You know it’s good for you, come on, it’s Gnu!
Windows? What is this “Windows” of which you speak? Win32? Do you mean X11? And I don’t understand. For me, vim is just a Terminal away, as are ssh and friends.
Heeh.
Steve, Sorry it took so long to approve your comment. I’m still getting used to this new setup.
And you are of course correct about how a Mac would solve this problem right off the bat. I need to set a deadline for myself to begin migration to Ubuntu or else I will just delay and defer, whittling away the usefulness of my system day by day.
Heeh. Well, I won’t hold it against you, knowing you’re suffering with that other OS.
Ubuntu+VirtualBox==.3*(Mac+VirtualBox)==5*Windows[version] (as a function of usefulness)
I can’t afford to run a windows machine anymore.
:s/emac_sucks/vim_rulez/g
that should start a storm
Yeah, I’m not too huge a fan of emacs either. I tried to tolerate it once or twice and then realized it was the weaker, more boring brother of vi.