On 16/02/2021 20:44, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> On 16 Feb 2021 19:15:42 GMT
> TimS  wrote:
>
>> I got bored waiting for this debate to conclude,
>> then found the Ultrix box had dxnotepad. So I spent 5 minutes learning
>> how to use a mouse-based editor, and got on with writing large amounts of
>> C.
>
>  That's fine and dandy when you have the option of running a GUI app
> on the box with the code that needs editing - this tends to be problematic
> when the box in question is on another continent (or even just in another
> building), at which point being good with a terminal based editor is
> helpful.
>
:-)

Even my little headless pi downstairs in the dining room hasn't got any
GUI...

But it has got NFS, so I can edit its files on this GUI machine. Most of
them anyway.

I remember the thrill I got sitting in a machine room in the Channel
islands, mounting an SMB share on my windows laptop and editing a report
over a 2MBps link to HQ in east Anglia...

Editing files on my remote servers using a GUI and NFS* is faster than
it used to be over coaxial ethernet in the same room.

*I have a fixed IP address. the firewalls at each end know what to do.
If someone in the middle really wants my source code that bad, they can
have it. If I want access globally I use sshfs



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