Just to clarify, for vim I'm talking about the scp:// thing, for emacs there is of course TRAMP. In both cases you're running a local editor and fetching the remote file, then sending it back when making changes. So your plugins and such should work just fine. I am not talking about sshing into the machine and running vim or emacs as a TUI on that remote machine, which is also possible with both editors.
Learning and wanting to use as a daily driver are very different things.
I use vim on my servers and for writing git commit messages. For everything else, I use another editor (used to be Sublime Text, then Vs code, now Zed).
Nailed it. I'm fine with using vim to do remote work. I'm not an expert, but I have enough muscle memory to zip through the things I need to do. I don't want to use it exclusively, though. Turns out I'm capable of learning my way around multiple tools and using different ones in different contexts. Who knew?
I don’t say I don’t know how to use one. I was a longtime vim and then neovim user. But I don’t want to use one.
I still use vim for quick terminal edits, git commit messages, and doing stuff over ssh. But for my day to day heavy text editing, I do not want to sit in a terminal and be limited by what a terminal can display.
I seem to hear this a lot, but there's probably like 10 commands (maybe a few more if you want to be fancy with copy-paste). Note: great if you like nano however!
For those that are interested, this will get you 90% there:
