On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 03:27 +0200, Kaya Saman wrote: > >> > >> > > Depending on the latency and bandwidth you could use X11 forwarding > > (granted the server supports it) so you could use a non-CLI editor. I > > think "joe" has some syntax highlighting, but I've never edited PHP > > files with it. > > If you are coming from a windows machine, you can use Cygwin or Xming > > to set up an X server on the box before SSHing to your data center > > w/X11 forwarding enabled. > > > > -Ken Sande > Many thanks to everyone! > > I currently use a mixture of FreeBSD, Linux, and Solaris/OpenSolaris as > operating systems so X11 forwarding is not a problem but maybe quite > slow considering the distance between me and my data center right now, > and also I have only 1Mbps upstream as the data center uses ADSL which > is a restriction on my behalf. > > Am using SFTP to transfer non-html related stuff and using simple nano > or copy-paste from the Gnome terminal..... > > Yeah many options available I know and I guess that's what makes things > fun :-) > > Anyway I'm sure I'll work something out, at worst case I could always > VPN once I get a Cisco router out here and get an IPsec tunnel going and > do things over NFS mount?? > > Regards, > > Kaya I never bother with X-forwarding for development work, it is too slow I agree. I use Konqueror to connect as an FTP client, as it works really well as a file manager with the split screen views it has. From there, I can manage most of my files as I wish over sftp as if they were local. The only thing I can't do it edit the graphics files with Gimp, as that doesn't use KDE's kioslaves :( Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
