These days you don't edit things on servers. The most you might do is edit a file and change a single option. You can do that in vi, vim or nano. Certainly you don't get to install you favorite editor (and version) and the .config folder an every server.

Most of the time you'll be editing config locally on your laptop and it'll get pushed to the servers via config management or whatever.

Your laptop is the place for your tricked-out IDE with 27 plugins