Linux text editors

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Friday, September 17, 2004 3:32 PM -0400 "ne..." <akabi at speakeasy.net> 
wrote:

> I can confirm it does work over ssh when you are disconnected.
> You just have to give it a bit of time and then reconnect with
> 'screen -r'. I also use it when I want to start compiling a big
> job and I am in between PCs...

Sounds like the perfect thing to do when performing a remote 
yum/apt/up2date update, to keep from hosing your RPM database when your 
stupid ISP drops your connection, or a backhoe driver in the middle of the 
country chops through the fiber you were routing through.