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

Since sshfs is not supported in WSL at the moment, the tool that worked for me is sshfs-win.

Installation Steps

1. Go here and click "download winfsp"
2. Install it
3. Go here and download the installer
4. Install it
5. Open windows explorer and right-click "This PC" > "Map Network Drive..."
6. Select a drive letter (B:), type in "\\sshfs\debian@10.13.100.36" and click Finish
7. Boom, done. Now you can have a B: drive on your computer and just do whatever with those files. Open them with VSCode, delete them, whatever you like

Answer 2

X11 forward can be sluggish... what OS are you connecting to? You might try 'nano' on ubuntu, or 'diakonos' if you want windows key bindings.

Answer 3

You might try the Komodo editor. It has a feature to load a 'remote file' over ssh. It's really convenient.

Answer 4

If you're on Ubuntu, go to Nautilus (file explorer), connect to server (adding sftp:// to the hostname), then voila! You can easily launch gedit to edit your files now.

Answer 5

On Windows, you can use MobaXterm ( http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net ): it has a built-in SSH client with a very useful "SFTP browser".

As soon as you connect to your remote server using SSH, you will see your remote files displayed in this graphical SFTP browser. Just double-click on your files and you will be able to edit them directly on your remote server through SFTP.

Answer 6

Emacs and ange-ftp.