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Re:Xi: an editor for the next 20 years [video] by cortesoft on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @04:32PM (#16269248)
I am guessing he works at a place that has a lot of servers that he connects to, and he wants to be able to use his editor on whatever server he is on.

I know this is an issue where I work. We have 40 thousand plus servers, and we aren't going to have everyone install their editor of choice on all those machines. If I have an issue I need to check on a server that requires some text editing, I have to use one of the default editors.

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Re:Xi: an editor for the next 20 years [video] by frou_dh on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @05:18PM (#16269611)
This is the appeal of sshfs - to be able to easily mount remote filesystems and use local tools against them.
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Re:Xi: an editor for the next 20 years [video] by erk__ on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @07:14PM (#16270283)
One of the best tools I have used with something like this is emacs's tramp-mode. It just works when you connect to another host.
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Re:Xi: an editor for the next 20 years [video] by ivrrimum on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @07:39PM (#16270399)
Yeah, but sshfs has been working pretty slow to me.

There is actually this neat hack you can use(if you use VIM) with rsync.

https://github.com/IvRRimum/rsync-vim

I know it's kind of Hacky, but the performance improvement is worth it IMO.

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