I would pull on that thread. That is, in your shoes
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MajorHavoc@programming.dev 4 months ago
The ‘ed’ editor was designed for high latency networks. I would pull on that thread. That is, in your shoes, I would read up on ‘ed’ and related tools.
jaredj@infosec.pub 4 months ago
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
Ed is great (in this context). I think there’s been posts about it on here before. It’s just a text editor, though.
MajorHavoc@programming.dev 4 months ago
Yeah. I’ve had mentors regail me of other tools they used alongside ‘Ed’, but I wasn’t listening very attentively. Hopefully that’s something that can be dug out of the history of the Internet.
I would definitely choose the old reliable stuff over something new and fancy, if I had this use case.
scroll_responsibly@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
MajorHavoc@programming.dev 4 months ago
Delightful!
“Of course, on the system I administrate, vi is symlinked to ed. Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user’s disk quota by 100K; and 3) RUNS ED!!!”
Gave me a giggle. That 100k loss has got to hurt for a user who still tries to run ‘vi’ on a classic system, I imagine.