OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/20035/Avoid_Latency_While_Editing_Remote_Files_Using_bcvi Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:45:40 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com fish://user@sshserver http://osnews.com/thread?322499 http://osnews.com/thread?322499 Why do so difficult?

Type fish://user@sshserver in Konqueror

.. and click the file you'd like to edit.

KDE rules ;) Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dmantione) Comments Netrw? http://osnews.com/thread?322508 http://osnews.com/thread?322508 What's difference between this tool and standard Vim plugin Netrw?

:help netrw Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (vvaz) Comments JSenior Match http://osnews.com/thread?322519 http://osnews.com/thread?322519 Oh my hometown NBA. When I am feeling lonely I would like talking with boomers on a cool site named ***JSenior Match . co M*** . There you can find your aged soul mates. We do feel lonely sometimes. Helping your single friends find their soul mates is so great for you. Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kikiloveu2) Comments RE: fish://user@sshserver http://osnews.com/thread?322540 http://osnews.com/thread?322540 Yes, actually KDE has managed to come up with the single most transparent way to handle these things. For this reason alone, I tend to use the Kate text editor over all others, simply because I DO NOT WANT to be interrupted and reminded about what is remote or local every time I edit a file. Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rycamor) Comments RE: fish://user@sshserver http://osnews.com/thread?322549 http://osnews.com/thread?322549 Thanks for the info. I do lot of remote text editing and don't know about this. I always use fish coupled with split screen of konqueror to drag and drop remote files. Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mbharat) Comments RE: fish://user@sshserver http://osnews.com/thread?322557 http://osnews.com/thread?322557 Gnome apps have the same functionality and will work over any gnome-vfs system too.
Example: gedit ssh://host/path/to/file

ssh: makes more sense to me than fish: anyway ;) .Edited 2008-07-11 20:18 UTC Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (intangible) Comments Emacs users http://osnews.com/thread?322568 http://osnews.com/thread?322568 Emacs has this with tramp. Tramp allows you to use your local emacs to edit remote files through ssh, rsh, ftp, or local files through su (allows you to use your configured emacs to modify a file in /etc for example). Saving the file will transparently copy the file back to the remote location.
As an example, i would open a remote file as: /ssh:bender@futurama:/home/bender/.bashrc. A password will be asked as and if needed. Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (snowbender) Comments Network Bash Prompt http://osnews.com/thread?322574 http://osnews.com/thread?322574 What I've really always wanted - in addition to a network transparent vim - is some sort of buffered bash readline support. Especially when logging in over my high-latency cell phone.

That combination would make shell logins via bluetooth cell phone very useful. Then port it to my cell phone itself (I've already got a keyboard)... Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (braddock) Comments RE: fish://user@sshserver http://osnews.com/thread?322581 http://osnews.com/thread?322581 No need for Konqueror. Pretty much every KDE app can do this in the File dialog.

1. Open KDE editor of choise.

2. Type "sftp://user@host/path/to/dir/" into the top textbox (location) and hit enter.

3. Enter password when prompted.

Voila! Instant access to all files on the remote system, same as if they were local. Open/Edit as needed.

You can do this with any KIO Slaves (dav, svn, http, sftp, etc). Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (phoenix) Comments RE[2]: fish://user@sshserver http://osnews.com/thread?322625 http://osnews.com/thread?322625 Even better, if you open an remote file in Konqueror with a non-KDE application (which doesn't support the KIOslaves) KDE will download the file, offer it to the application, an offer to upload it again if you did change the file automatically! Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (superstoned) Comments RE[2]: fish://user@sshserver http://osnews.com/thread?322634 http://osnews.com/thread?322634 There is need for neither: just use sshfs on FUSE: sshfs user@server:path mount_path ;-) Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (unavowed) Comments And the problem of choice becomes apparent... http://osnews.com/thread?322651 http://osnews.com/thread?322651 Just reading the comments on this article shows how bad it is to provide too many choices to your users... Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (umccullough) Comments RE: And the problem of choice becomes apparent... http://osnews.com/thread?322689 http://osnews.com/thread?322689
...how bad it is to provide too many choices to your users...



Well, I disagree that having many ways of doing something is a problem. It is a blessing having choices, and being able to pick the one you like most.

Edited 2008-07-13 14:03 UTC Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OhSeven) Comments