<div dir="ltr">Unfortunately, assuming you don't have x-forwarding, you're stuck with {vim,emacs,pico,nano,ed} or similar and they are all going to feel like command-line editors.<br><div><br></div><div>If you need to be editing it on the remote machine via ssh, <a href="http://vim-adventures.com/">http://vim-adventures.com/</a>  :)</div><div><br></div><div>If you have it, x-forwarding gedit could work for you, but that can get lagy...</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Roger Roelofs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:roger.roelofs@gmail.com" target="_blank">roger.roelofs@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>There's no command line editor that doesn't feel like one.</div><div><br></div>Assuming they don't want to become command line junkies like us, they'd be better off editing locally.  There are graphical tools for every platform to view directory contents and edit remote files by downloading them to /tmp and uploading them when the user hits 'save'.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 11:56 AM, L. V. Lammert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lvl@omnitec.net" target="_blank">lvl@omnitec.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>On Thu, 6 Aug 2015, Roger Roelofs wrote:<br>
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> "best editor" questions always boil down to "it depends'  What kind of<br>
> files will they be editing?<br>
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</span>html, php, etc.<br>
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> Before I succumbed to vim I preferred nano for editing config files.  For<br>
> coding I'm still an emacs guy.<br>
><br>
</span>None would be good for a non-admin chap, but thanks!<br>
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        Lee<br>
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