In Red Hat 9: Main menu => Internet => More Internet Applications => gFTP Then, in "FTP" menu find "Options" => Network: Default Protocol. Set it to use SSH2. Also in "FTP" find "General": Edit program. Put the command name of your favorite editor. Usage: Right click on a remote server file and choose "Edit". Go play. :) On pon, 2003-09-29 at 15:07, Brian Johnson wrote: > I've been looking for a way to use a gui text editor to edit files on a remote server. > > Most options seem to involve a fair bit of setup at one end or both ends. > > I recently discovered the fish:// protocol in konqueror that seems to use ssh to > allow gui based (in konqueror) file browsing and the ability to edit remote files > with a local gui editor. > > It seems to make a temporary copy via scp and when you save, it overwrites the > existing remote file via scp. > > This is EXACTLY what I want due to it's simplicity. > > My only problem is that I haven't been able to run KDE for over a year (on my > laptop) due to some kind of config problem and after spending time trying to fix it, > I got frustrated and switched to gnome (where I have now grown very comfortable) > > Although I can run konqueror in gnome, it loads all the kde libraries (or at least a > bunch of them) and I'm already swapping memory to HD due to RAM linitations. > > I hope that someone can tell me of an equivalent (simple) system in a native gnome app. > > I'm not afraid of switching editors. I do mostly php programming and use scite. I > have also used quanta in the past. -- Igor Nestorovic University of Belgrade Faculty of Economics http://jung.ekof.bg.ac.yu ICQ# 31079000
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