Hi all,

I seem to see a lot of people using VSC over ssh to see the files and folders on their servers and edit them more conveniently than compared to nano/vim but I’m looking for alternatives for VSC.

I have an increasing number of servers and hosting things with docker compose. Thus I have a lot of /app/docker folders with numerous docker-compose.yaml and other container specific config files.

I dislike VSC so as an alternative I use Notepad++ with nftp plugin (yap, I’m daily driving Windows) to connect to the servers to see and edit said files.

I also tried Jetbrain’ fleet but it seems to intall some kind of client on the servers it connects to which requires just enough resources to notably slow down my cheap VPSes.

So other than the 3 examples above, what kind of edit do you know/use to connect to servers and edit files there directly?

  • Reasonable-Ladder300@alien.topBEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Usually on the remote i use lunarvim(neovim but with some default settings and plugins).

    Other than that I usually have everything as a git repo, so i edit on my local/remote ide(pycharm, vscode or vscode server). I edit the files push them to the repo and then i just pull the files on my host.

    I know this adds some steps to edit a simple file, but the version control etc can be a massive advantage depending on what you do.

  • chandz05@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I usually do Notepad++ over SFTP

    I also spun up a code-server instance with access to my configs if I don’t have access to Notepad++.

  • MRP_yt@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    While i was using Windows - MobaxTerm

    Now that i switched to MINT - Tabby

  • utopiah@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    `ssh` then `vim` but within a `screen` session, this way I maintain the state, e.g vim stays open on the configuration file or the code, and I can have multiple “windows” per project, all easy to switch to.

    I reattach to the running session with `screen -raAD` and I made a shortcut so that if I type `s` in my terminal I’m in my server, ready to code.

  • KillerTic@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    For sure not best practice, but I have a SMB share on my servers for the Docker folder and mount it on my dev machine.

    Recently switched to a dev VM on my hypervisor, which has VSCode Server from Coder running. It also has the different shares mounted. Now I can VPN in from anywhere, switch on my dev VM and do whatever needs doing with my full environment available to me.

  • smashjarchivemaster@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Nautilus on my linux laptop can mount sftp as if it were a physically attached drive. You can even right click empty space in the folder to get the option of “Open in Remote Terminal” or “Open in Local Terminal”.

  • a_40oz_of_Mickeys@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I connect via winscp to browse files and it has an editor but you can have it open files using whichever program you want. I stick with VS Code.