[GRLUG] gedit on the command line

[Roger Roelofs]

Here's a Windows solution.  https://winscp.net/eng/docs/task_edit

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Thomas Wodarek <kc8zpq at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> If you need to be editing it on the remote machine via ssh,
> http://vim-adventures.com/  :)
>
> If you have it, x-forwarding gedit could work for you, but that can get
> lagy...
>
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Roger Roelofs <roger.roelofs at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> There's no command line editor that doesn't feel like one.
>>
>> 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'.
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 11:56 AM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 6 Aug 2015, Roger Roelofs wrote:
>>>
>>> > "best editor" questions always boil down to "it depends'  What kind of
>>> > files will they be editing?
>>> >
>>> html, php, etc.
>>>
>>> > Before I succumbed to vim I preferred nano for editing config files.
>>> For
>>> > coding I'm still an emacs guy.
>>> >
>>> None would be good for a non-admin chap, but thanks!
>>>
>>>         Lee
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>>
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>> Roger
>>
>> Roger Roelofs
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