Linux text editors

[Nifty Hat Mitch]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 07:37:55PM -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> --On Friday, September 17, 2004 3:32 PM -0400 "ne..." <akabi at speakeasy.net> 
> wrote:
> 
> >I can confirm it does work over ssh when you are disconnected.
> >You just have to give it a bit of time and then reconnect with
> >'screen -r'. I also use it when I want to start compiling a big
> >job and I am in between PCs...
> 
> Sounds like the perfect thing to do when performing a remote 
> yum/apt/up2date update, to keep from hosing your RPM database when your 
> stupid ISP drops your connection, or a backhoe driver in the middle of the 
> country chops through the fiber you were routing through.

It is -- there are some security cautions that are
well discussed in the documentation.

It takes a bit of getting used to. You can have
an editor open and running... if you forget you can
have version or last write wins strange things.

It is a good tool, there are some places where nothing else solves the
problem.


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