I am looking for a GUI text editor on Linux with a GUI which will allow me to connect to other machines via SSH and edit text files on these machines.

Is there such a thing or is there another way to do this with an encrypted connection?

  • @trymeoutOPEnglish
    1•10 months ago

    Do you mean sftp?

    I just played around with it. My file manager is Nemo (I am using Linux Mint) which allows you to connect to another computer using sftp and being able to browser the files and directories on that machine and be able to open text files.

    Not the way I would prefer to do it, but a workable solution.

    However I would also like to edit files on the machine with sudo privelages. I cannot connect to the machine as a normal user and right click in Nemo and open the file manager as root, as it will just open the sftp file manager as root on my device, not the remote device.

    I did find this as a solution but it makes my remote machine unsecure by connecting to the remote machine as the root user by enabling the root user on the remote machine. However rather use sudo than enable the root user.

    https://askubuntu.com/questions/400858/how-to-configure-sftp-to-login-in-the-directory

      • @trymeoutOPEnglish
        1•10 months ago

        If you are doing this as root, I have to question what it is you’re up to. The only time you should be editing files as root is config files, and then vim or nano should meet your needs.

        Yes I only want to use root to edit config files. However I hate using nano and vim since they are TUI. I would like to use a GUI when editing config files.