What text editor is available in Heroku bash shell? [closed]

Question

I recently turned the original gist into a heroku cli plugin.

Just install:

heroku plugins:install https://github.com/naaman/heroku-vim

And use:

heroku vim

The heroku vim command will drop you into a bash shell with vim installed on your $PATH. All you have to do is retrain your fingers to type heroku vim instead of heroku run bash.

If you don't want to mess around with plugins and just want a copy of nano in your one-off dyno, just run

mkdir /app/nano
curl https://github.com/Ehryk/heroku-nano/raw/master/heroku-nano-2.5.1/nano.tar.gz --location --silent | tar xz -C /app/nano
export PATH=$PATH:/app/nano

This will download a copy of nano from this plugin and put it in your PATH.

there's ed if you're a masochist.

It looks like you can download and install vim for one session:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
curl https://s3.amazonaws.com/heroku-jvm-buildpack-vi/vim-7.3.tar.gz --output vim.tar.gz
mkdir vim && tar xzvf vim.tar.gz -C vim
export PATH=$PATH:/app/vim/bin

This idea was found here.

Even if you could edit the files with vi it probably wouldn't solve your problem because the file system is ephemeral. Meaning... If you edit a file via heroku run bash you aren't actually changing the file for other dynos. To change a file for all dynos you need to either change what you push in a Git repo or change the buildpack. More details:
https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/oneoff-admin-ps#formation-dynos-vs-oneoff-dynos

The plugin provided by Naaman Newbold is no longer working with heroku-16 stack, so I made a new plugin out of this updated gist.

Install:

heroku plugins:install @jasonheecs/heroku-vim

And use:

heroku vim

In the comments on the Brian Takita's answer link, there is the more recent solution to get Vim working on the Heroku console:

https://gist.github.com/dvdbng/7375821b20f189c189ab1bd29392c98e

Just saved me a lot of time! :)