Code editing over SSH

scrupul0us

Is anyone here familiar with a code editor that will let me access/edit code over a SSH connection?

I can edit my code in the shell via PuTTY but I need something a little more interactive with syntax highlighting and copy/paste

thanks

goldbug

UltraEdit supports editing over FTP/SFTP. Plus it's a pretty darn snazzy text editor 🙂

scrupul0us

unfort. i dont have the ability to FTP to the server... FTP is blocked where I am at...

piersk

How much access to the server do you have and what OS are you and the server running? It's a bit extreme, but you could use NFS and mount it over SSH

goldbug

scrupul0us wrote:
Is anyone here familiar with a code editor that will let me access/edit code over a SSH connection?

scrupul0us wrote:
unfort. i dont have the ability to FTP to the server... FTP is blocked where I am at...

uhhh....

goldbug wrote:
UltraEdit supports editing over FTP/SFTP. Plus it's a pretty darn snazzy text editor

You're aware that's via SSH, right??

If you already use PuTTY, you're set... UltraEdit uses PuTTY private key files even (last I checked)

Sxooter

And you can always ssh in and use VIM. Not my favorite editor, but it does do syntax highlighting.

scrupul0us

@: ill have to toy around with ultraedit

@: @ the office im on win2k sp4... the server (@ my house) is running slackware or ubuntu depending on which im trying to access... because of our corporate setup i only have SSH to rely on... PuTTY works and is what i do use (along with pico) but its a PITA to code with

Sxooter

Make sure that if you're using pico (or it's open source equivalent nano) that you set it up to do search/replace and not auto-wrap. It's a halfway usable text editor after that.

Are you allowed to put passphraseless ssh keys on your machine for your account? Or set up anonymous rsync access? Either one could help out on making life easier. Even without the no-passphrase ssh keys, you should be able to write some quick scripts to rsync one way or another, and then edit locally with a nice text editor with highlighting.

scrupul0us

Sxooter wrote:
Make sure that if you're using pico (or it's open source equivalent nano) that you set it up to do search/replace and not auto-wrap. It's a halfway usable text editor after that.

no idea how todo that... suggestions 😉

Sxooter wrote:
Are you allowed to put passphraseless ssh keys on your machine for your account? Or set up anonymous rsync access? Either one could help out on making life easier. Even without the no-passphrase ssh keys, you should be able to write some quick scripts to rsync one way or another, and then edit locally with a nice text editor with highlighting.

now you've lost me with rsync and such

Sxooter

Well, I use nano, and with nano, you can create a .nanorc file in your home directory with default settings.

As for rsync, assuming you're sshing into a unix server, man rsync should get you started. It's really pretty easy to use once you've got your setup right.