Is it possible to SSH into another server (another linux environment) and open that server's files in, say a text editor with a interface(and not in the terminal)? If so, is there a special option/command to do this?

you would need to transfer the files to your server and open them which can be done a ssh file transfer protocol.

why cant you use vim?

nother option is to code a app that connects and cats a file and displays it locally on your box.

What's special about vim?

X is designed specifically to allow this ...

never used X so i didnt know



its a console text editor. why do you need to open the files locally?

It's quicker for me to edit the text instead of getting use to text editor hot keys. Although I have no problem doing it in the terminal.



Do you mean OS X? Would it allow me to ssh files for text editing with a nice graphical interface? If so, should I know anything to make this functional before I boot it up in virtual machine?

This post was edited by MsRailgun on Jun 9 2012 07:20pm

No I mean X, as in Xwindows, implemented by X.org

google something along "remote xwindows" / "remote xorg" / "x over ssh" etc.

its not really that hard to memorize like 1 hotkey and 3 commands. lol

I don't know, it just feels better to be able to control it using a mouse
I've tried X forwarding and it's rather slow on my laptop... to a point where I rather just use the hotkey and commands.

if you don't like vim then you could use nano

all vim shortcuts you need to know:
i -> go to insert mode, then you are able to insert stuff
esc : w q -> (go to command mode and) quit with saving

the rest is typing your stuff, you can even move with the arrow keys