Totally fair, I only learned because I was forced to.
Why wouldn’t it work over telnet when it works via SSH?
Serial consoles feed back information one line at a time, so no curses interfaces. No arrow keys, just hjkl. Anything that needs to count characters and columns (like position-based cursor editors like nano) won’t work over telnet.
in my console, or rather terminal
A serial console and a terminal aren’t the same thing.
Vi is unintuitive and annoying to me. Others can use whatever they want but I can’t stand people who tell others they’re wrong for not preferring vi.
I use micro in my console, or rather terminal. Why wouldn’t it work over telnet when it works via SSH?
Totally fair, I only learned because I was forced to.
Serial consoles feed back information one line at a time, so no curses interfaces. No arrow keys, just hjkl. Anything that needs to count characters and columns (like position-based cursor editors like nano) won’t work over telnet.
A serial console and a terminal aren’t the same thing.
If you like micro, use micro. I don’t care.
I once had to edit and dump a Cisco config from a 10 switch stack over 9600 baud.
It took ages, and then I realised my fancy new terminal still had a default scrollback limit set, and had to do it again.
Actual torture.