Help avoiding using terminal editors

[Nathan England]

Can you possibly use Kate? If you have access to kate, or even kwrite
(though it does not have as many features) you could click File -> Open and
in the address bar type

sftp://root@SERVERNAME/PATH/TO/FILE

Then edit and save directly without any additional need to copy here or
there or anywhere!

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 12:32 PM, <leegold at speedymail.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a local server where I am root. The server has no Xwindows on it.
> I access the server by ssh for a command line or by filezilla to
> transfer files w/sftp. I want to be able to edit text files with a GUI
> editor via ssh or via sftp. I can edit with ssh with "$sudo nano
> filename" only. It's driving me crazy. I can't stand nano, vi, emacs or
> any terminal based editor. I need to be root to edit these files in
> /var/www. I am using Ubuntu server for the server. I want to use an
> editor with windows like Geany or anything like it. I only have enough
> permission in my /home to use a GUI editor else I need to sudo.
>
> I was thinking of a script to send a copy of a file over to my /home
> then use Filezilla, then a script to sudo cp and overwrite it back to
> /var/www. Still a pain. Is there any way in my situation to be able to
> use a GUI editor and not have to use a terminal editor?
>
> I may not of explained it clearly, sorry...also I have to sit an look at
> these files for long periods - for me a terminal editor I'm not
> productive on.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lee G.
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