emacs for sys admins [closed]

Solution 1:

Use the Emacs built-in TRAMP system to edit remote files directly instead of logging in remotely.

Org-Mode is also quite excellent.

Solution 2:

I used to work as a sysadmin (these days, I'm a network admin) and I've used emacs since before I started working. I use emacs for any editing done "on my machine" (be that the primary server where my X display is driven from or whatever machine is on my desktop), for scripting and coding work.

I have, however, through my career, used ed or vi on remote systems (except a few, where I knew emacs would be available, due to knowing the user base), simply because it's there and in general it's only a quiestion of a few quick edits in a config file.

Solution 3:

I am such sysadmin with emacs. Actually, I use Vim a lot in terminals and do not install Emacs on my servers, but on localhost Emacs is my main instrument.

Tool number one, top of the heap, king of the hill is Org-mode. I use it as a work log, planner, tiny hierarchical database and typesetting system. Org-mode is the kernel of my GTD-like time management system. I have also some remember-mode templates so I can quickly capture notes whatever program I'm working with.

I read mail with Wanderlust, so I can insert links to emails and news articles into my Org-mode to-do list.

Then, sometimes I write simple HTML texts with html-helper-mode. AucTeX is a perfect editor for more complicated LaTeX documents

Emacs also makes a good set of desktop utilities, from calculator to calendar.

Dired is a great file manager. Inside Dired, I can view files of different types and all they are automatically converted to plain text (using txutils).

BTW, there's an acceptable text editor in Emacs and I use it to write scripts in Bash and Perl.