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What seems to be the difference between the two of you? Better yet, what about amp appeals to you, and what about vim makes you dislike it but still be held hostage?

Personally, I use vim because:

- Most of the time I live on the server and running vscode (or any gui based editor) over X feels kinda useless.

- I don't like the sftp/sshfs based solutions

- (neo)vim is light enough that I can install anywhere (I have permissions) if its not already present

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VS Code now has a "Remote SSH" plugin which installs the editor and all of its plugins on a remote server with one command, giving you an editor and file browser on that server almost instantly

I was never able to get VS Code's Remote SSH functionality to work. IIRC the server-side code indexing hung indefinitely.

I'm still curious what was special about my environment, since it seems to work for most people.

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