Provide vim

[bernhardmgruber]

I use the devcontainers to compile and run CCCL benchmarks on our internal cluster. Since VSCode is sometimes troublesome I also need to work on the command line. It would help me immensely if the vim command could be provided. It was already a pain to learn a few basic vim commands, so please don't let me repreat this horror with vi. Thank you!

[bernhardmgruber]

Friendly reminder :)

[msarahan]

Maybe vim-tiny would be adequate? https://www.baeldung.com/linux/vim-tiny-properties

[trxcllnt]

The devcontainers/features/common-utils feature installs vim-tiny, and it's available at /usr/bin/vim.tiny. Does that work for you @bernhardmgruber?

[bernhardmgruber]

Thank you for that suggestion! I tried it briefly and noticed it lacks syntax highlighting, but otherwise works. I will give it a try for some time. Thx for the suggestion!

[trxcllnt]

@bernhardmgruber run CCCL benchmarks on our internal cluster. Since VSCode is sometimes troublesome

Is this a slurm cluster? If so, I have a script that makes working with slurm clusters as seamless as normal VSCode Remote SSH (by salloc'ing a compute node and automatically logging in to it directly when it's ready).

[bernhardmgruber]

So I tried vim.tiny for a few times, but found myself going back to install vim in the container each time I would launch a new one. So my request remains active, but it's not a big issue to install it each time, if you deem the extra weight not worth the benefit.

Is this a slurm cluster?

Discussed offline a while back.