[GRLUG] gedit on the command line

[Evan Roelofs]

I can second using alternative editors via WinSCP. This is what our windows
sysadmins at work use.

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 12:11 PM Roger Roelofs <roger.roelofs at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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