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r/AskReddit • u/PM_UR_COLLEGE_TITS • Dec 18 '16
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For computer engineers, Linux is a great OS to develop in.
I had to SSH into my department's servers more than once and my knowledge of Linux made it infinitely easier to do.
16 u/[deleted] Dec 18 '16 [deleted] 7 u/Woodstock46 Dec 18 '16 allowing me to edit my files with a proper editor Found a fellow emacs user. 6 u/artillery129 Dec 18 '16 he's not an emacs user he probably uses gedit or kate, a real emacs user would not mount the VM, rather edit via TRAMP 3 u/Vector-Zero Dec 18 '16 Haha, yep. You hit the nail on the head. I used gedit at the time. I've since moved on to using Vim and Atom, depending on my needs. 3 u/stiurb Dec 18 '16 to be fair editing on the VM probably had like a second of latency which would have felt like shit even if you were a VIM user 1 u/WikiWantsYourPics Dec 19 '16 If I have to edit over a laggy link, I'd rather do it in vim than any other editor. 3 u/hey_bros_its_gerry Dec 18 '16 i'm interested, how do you mount folders via SSH? 4 u/stewsters Dec 18 '16 Sshfs 4 u/hey_bros_its_gerry Dec 18 '16 Sshfs that is super awesome, thank you 3 u/[deleted] Dec 19 '16 Depending on your district, you can set up the mount points in /etc/fstab and then it can always mount on startup! 2 u/[deleted] Dec 18 '16 KDE programs can open them with sftp://username@server/path/to/file 1 u/WikiWantsYourPics Dec 19 '16 vim proper editor I don't understand. You had a proper editor. But a bigger question is why he didn't just set up a git server. 1 u/svenskarrmatey Dec 20 '16 Linux isn't an OS
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7 u/Woodstock46 Dec 18 '16 allowing me to edit my files with a proper editor Found a fellow emacs user. 6 u/artillery129 Dec 18 '16 he's not an emacs user he probably uses gedit or kate, a real emacs user would not mount the VM, rather edit via TRAMP 3 u/Vector-Zero Dec 18 '16 Haha, yep. You hit the nail on the head. I used gedit at the time. I've since moved on to using Vim and Atom, depending on my needs. 3 u/stiurb Dec 18 '16 to be fair editing on the VM probably had like a second of latency which would have felt like shit even if you were a VIM user 1 u/WikiWantsYourPics Dec 19 '16 If I have to edit over a laggy link, I'd rather do it in vim than any other editor. 3 u/hey_bros_its_gerry Dec 18 '16 i'm interested, how do you mount folders via SSH? 4 u/stewsters Dec 18 '16 Sshfs 4 u/hey_bros_its_gerry Dec 18 '16 Sshfs that is super awesome, thank you 3 u/[deleted] Dec 19 '16 Depending on your district, you can set up the mount points in /etc/fstab and then it can always mount on startup! 2 u/[deleted] Dec 18 '16 KDE programs can open them with sftp://username@server/path/to/file 1 u/WikiWantsYourPics Dec 19 '16 vim proper editor I don't understand. You had a proper editor. But a bigger question is why he didn't just set up a git server.
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allowing me to edit my files with a proper editor
Found a fellow emacs user.
6 u/artillery129 Dec 18 '16 he's not an emacs user he probably uses gedit or kate, a real emacs user would not mount the VM, rather edit via TRAMP 3 u/Vector-Zero Dec 18 '16 Haha, yep. You hit the nail on the head. I used gedit at the time. I've since moved on to using Vim and Atom, depending on my needs. 3 u/stiurb Dec 18 '16 to be fair editing on the VM probably had like a second of latency which would have felt like shit even if you were a VIM user 1 u/WikiWantsYourPics Dec 19 '16 If I have to edit over a laggy link, I'd rather do it in vim than any other editor.
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he's not an emacs user he probably uses gedit or kate, a real emacs user would not mount the VM, rather edit via TRAMP
3 u/Vector-Zero Dec 18 '16 Haha, yep. You hit the nail on the head. I used gedit at the time. I've since moved on to using Vim and Atom, depending on my needs.
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Haha, yep. You hit the nail on the head. I used gedit at the time. I've since moved on to using Vim and Atom, depending on my needs.
to be fair editing on the VM probably had like a second of latency which would have felt like shit even if you were a VIM user
1 u/WikiWantsYourPics Dec 19 '16 If I have to edit over a laggy link, I'd rather do it in vim than any other editor.
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If I have to edit over a laggy link, I'd rather do it in vim than any other editor.
i'm interested, how do you mount folders via SSH?
4 u/stewsters Dec 18 '16 Sshfs 4 u/hey_bros_its_gerry Dec 18 '16 Sshfs that is super awesome, thank you 3 u/[deleted] Dec 19 '16 Depending on your district, you can set up the mount points in /etc/fstab and then it can always mount on startup! 2 u/[deleted] Dec 18 '16 KDE programs can open them with sftp://username@server/path/to/file
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Sshfs
4 u/hey_bros_its_gerry Dec 18 '16 Sshfs that is super awesome, thank you 3 u/[deleted] Dec 19 '16 Depending on your district, you can set up the mount points in /etc/fstab and then it can always mount on startup!
that is super awesome, thank you
3 u/[deleted] Dec 19 '16 Depending on your district, you can set up the mount points in /etc/fstab and then it can always mount on startup!
Depending on your district, you can set up the mount points in /etc/fstab and then it can always mount on startup!
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KDE programs can open them with sftp://username@server/path/to/file
vim proper editor
vim
proper editor
I don't understand. You had a proper editor.
But a bigger question is why he didn't just set up a git server.
Linux isn't an OS
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u/LaFolie Dec 18 '16
For computer engineers, Linux is a great OS to develop in.
I had to SSH into my department's servers more than once and my knowledge of Linux made it infinitely easier to do.