Looking for a GUI text editor with SSH support (lemmy.world)

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I am looking for a GUI text editor on Linux with a GUI which will allow me to connect to other machines via SSH and edit text files on these machines.

Is there such a thing or is there another way to do this with an encrypted connection?

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[-] finestnothing@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Emacs is hands down my favorite editor but it's more text than gui (definitely worth it to learn and use though). For remote files, you can just open them with c-x c-f (normal file opening shortcut) then /ssh:user@host:/path/to/file

[-] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That functionality in emacs is known as TRAMP.

https://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/

TRAMP stands for “Transparent Remote (file) Access, Multiple Protocol”. This package provides an easy, convenient, and consistent interface to editing remote files transparently, just as if they are local files. This extends to editing, version control, dired, and more.

[-] superbirra@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

vim also does it https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/202918/how-do-i-remotely-edit-files-via-ssh

and it's by far superior :PPPP

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