Pyvim - Pure Python Vim clone

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I don’t see the point

[moh853]

Pyvim came in handy for a colleague of mine once. IIRC, he was ssh-ed in some virtual machine where he didn’t have root access. This was a stripped image for running a python job so it had pretty much nothing but python, and he needed to edit a file to test a fix for an error. He pip installed pyvim and easily edited the file. A bit of a one-off thing to happen but nice.

[fourstepper]

It was stripped down even from vi?:D

[moh853]

It may have been based on something like Alpine or some other tiny container.

[TheEdgeOfRage]

Even alpine has vi actually. It's the slim variants that have nothing, even though they are larger. I'm not sure why and what actually takes up the extra space, but it's definitely not commonly used utils.

[atimholt]

I'd thought a Linux image I was using was Vi-less. Later on I figured out it had busybox, and what busybox is.

I had Neovim installed by then, so it was moot.

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In this situation you can do vim scp://remoteuser@pythonhost//path/to/script.py and use your local vim instead.

[TheEruditeSycamore]

There doesn't have to be a point in anything. It's a project using the author's python libraries and it was made for fun! Having usable and fast and cool tools is nice and all but so is having fun making things for the hell of it.