Edit over SSH.

Dan Garthwaite dan at garthwaite.org
Mon Feb 25 18:58:51 EST 2019


Bill is correct.  Just stick to:
vim scp://target.host.com/.bashrc

On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 4:32 PM Bill Freeman <ke1g.nh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Resistance (like capacitance) is futile. Stay with the one true editor.
> Whatever nifty feature you saw, there is probably an extension to do it in
> emacs. (Or you can write one.)
>
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2019, 2:52 PM Ken D'Ambrosio <ken at jots.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi, all.  In Emacs, it's trivially easy to open a file on a remote host:
>>
>> emacs /user at host:/path/to/file
>>
>> And while I *do* enjoy Emacs, I admit that some of the other IDE/editors
>> I've seen look kind of nifty.  But opening files via SSH is really,
>> really handy -- to the point where I consider it a dealbreaker to not
>> have it.  I found Visual Code can do SSH, but you have to (at least, by
>> my reading) set up per-host profiles, etc.  Bleh.  I know that vim can
>> do it, but I'm just not a vim guy.  I'm just not interested in doing
>> some out-of-the-box thing like sshmount (or whatever it is).  So, at the
>> end of the day, anyone have an editor they enjoy where it's as easy to
>> open a file over SSH as it is in Emacs?
>>
>> Thanks for any thoughts you might have...
>>
>> -Ken
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