Re: What programs do you make sure are installed on a new Linux

On 2024-11-19, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
 

On 19/11/2024 12:31, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
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For me, it's vi(m) or nothing.

 +1 - it's available on all machines, and my fingers speak
it well enough that if I'm trying to move down the screen
in other editors a string of "j"s appear on the screen.
For sheer economy of keystrokes, vi(m) is hard to beat.
Occasionally I'll fall back to a GUI editor if I need
to cut and paste text - mousepad works, but not well
enough to make me want to switch.
 

I used to use microEmacs, but I found regular emacs too knuckle-busting.

 I looked at emacs once or twice, but it lives on a different planet
than I do.