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[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I recently worked on a system that had the TERM variable botched and filtered and no nano, just vim. It was all hell. The escape sequences in vim wouldn't work. I ended up suspendig it with ctrl+z, killing it, then editing the config with fucking ed and sed. That hoster sucks.

[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 8 points 10 months ago

Name and shame.

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

Vim can do much more than nano, but for it to work, quite a few specific stars need to align, and if they don't you are screwed.

Nano on the other had just works. If it exists in your env.