Re: Is there a way to do this?

[fiaid@quasi-sane.com]

And thus the holy wars begin....

> Eeeek vi!,Do not join his lemur evil cult!
> If you have not yet discoved nano, let me suggest it, it's small, text
> based, and very not insane.
> I use it for most things like that.
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> NZG.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: silug-discuss-owner@silug.org
> [mailto:silug-discuss-owner@silug.org]On Behalf Of Ray Holtz
> Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 3:16 PM
> To: silug-discuss@silug.org
> Subject: Re: Is there a way to do this?
> 
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> I don't use emacs at all so I can't respond directly about this.  How
> about using vi in the ssh session?  Its simple textonly.  Thats what I use.
> 
> Ray
> BTW, hows U of I?
> 
> Ken Keefe wrote:
> > So, when I want to edit a text config file on my server I usually open a
> > ssh and say "emacs <file> &"
> >
> > The problem with that is that because it is not only sending the file
> > data, it is sending the gui data with it, it is very slow over a normal
> > internet connection. I know I could do emacs -nw to speed things up, but
> > I like the window.
> >
> > Anyway, my question is, is there a way to open a text file on a remote
> > system using a local application only through a ssh session? In other
> > words, I'd like to edit this file, but I don't want to use the emacs on
> > my server, I want to use the emacs on my local machine so it is very
> > responsive.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ken Keefe
> >
> >
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