Heh.

My point was that copying the files backwards and forwards is tedious and error prone. This is a Unix box. It'll have some flavour of 'vi' installed by default. It almost certainly won't have a copy of emacs. Unless you've somehow travelled back in time to the dark ages, in which case use 'ed' or kill yourself.

If you're going to do any kind of Unix sysadmin work, you need to learn (at least the basics of) vi.

Or you can start drinking the kool-aid, and use it for your everyday editor.