How do you edit files over SSH?

Question

I program with eclipse and sometimes use GUI text editors like SciTE or vim. However, I\'m at a point in a project that requires me to edit files over a ssh connection in a 80 c

Answer 1

There are various options.

You can make the terminal larger. ;)

If you have a graphical environment installed on the machine you are ssh'ing into, you can login with ssh -X (or xdeep-putty if you are on Windows) to enable window forwarding. You can then run your favourite editor on the remote machine, whose graphical output is forwarded.

Finally, you can mount the ssh connection into your file system, using for example fuse (similar options might exist for non-linux operating systems). That allows you to access any file on the remote machine as if it were in your filesystem, with your favourite editor, locally.

Answer 2

Notepad ++ has a plugin for editing files remotely over ssh. I've used it before, but I definitely prefer Kate on KDE using the fish protocol.

http://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/website/ftp-client-setup/connect-ftp-notepad-plus

Answer 3

I'm not 100% sure if this works for files owned by root, but if your desktop is KDE & your remote system is Linux (or pretty much any form of *nix), you can get konqueror to access the remote machine using the "fish://" protocol. From there you can open the file from konqueror using kate, or your preferred editor, and konqueror will take care of copying the file to your local machine and copying it back when you save.

Failing which the X11 forward is a good option, but X11 over ssh to remote sites can be slow. "ssh -X -C" compresses the data stream and can give better performance.

Answer 4

I use Cyberduck and Sublime Text 2

Answer 5

If you using windows, try Editplus. It's not free but allows you to open files directly over scp. Custom syntax files are coming really handy, too.

Answer 6

Forward your X11 session to your terminal.

http://dragonwall.net/xdeep-putty.html

This probably belongs on superuser.com.