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cozzydtoday at 12:24 AM1 replyview on HN

Yes that's the point. If vscode didn't insist on installing potentially gigabytes of blobs then this wouldn't be necessary.

(I'm a vimmer anyway... And emacs is too bloated to fit too, conveniently.)


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skydhashtoday at 3:34 AM

> And emacs is too bloated to fit too, conveniently.

If you connect via ssh, you could use Tramp. It does not install emacs on the target, but instead use a somewhat permanent connection as a tunnel for most emacs commands (transparently). Works too with docker, podman, distrobox, etc,...

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